How can I describe someone who feels little or no emotion?
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00:00 How Can I Describe Someone Who Feels Little Or No Emotion?
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ANSWER 1
Score 8
The medical term is blunted affect. A more extreme case is called a flat affect.
From Wikipedia:
Blunted affect is the scientific term describing a lack of emotional reactivity on the part of an individual. It is manifest as a failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, even when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage the emotions. Expressive gestures are rare and there is little animation in facial expression or in vocal inflection
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Score 7
Blunted affect may be the noun, but if you're looking for an adjective to describe someone like that the term is affectless.
affectless : showing or expressing no emotion; also : unfeeling
ANSWER 3
Score 2
If you're looking for a term to use in everyday conversation (your request for an appropriate medical term aside), it's common to describe someone as being emotionally detached.
ANSWER 4
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Possible synonyms:
- reserved / suppressed
- restrained / self-restrained / self-contained
- discreet
- overinhibited
- dazed