Learn English – Need a word for the inability to feel anger

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I need a term for the inability to feel anger. Features desired:

  1. Single word
  2. Prefer connotations of incapacity rather than benefit
  3. Prefer reasonably clear specificity to anger
  4. More clinical tone slightly preferred over less clinical

To illustrate what I mean by #2 and #3, I considered serenity, but that word has positive connotations rather than connoting incapacity, and implies the absence of emotions besides anger (fear, for example).

Best Answer

When one is unable to feel anger, and incapable of feeling any strong emotions, I would say that person is numb.

You can be numb with grief; unable to shed tears and to express your sorrow. You can be so stunned and be in shock that your whole mind and body is paralysed or frozen into a state of inactivity; this goes for emotions too.

In wikipedia I found this article: Emotional detachment

Emotional detachment, in psychology, can mean two different things. In the first meaning, it refers to an "inability to connect" with others emotionally, as well as a means of dealing with anxiety by preventing certain situations that trigger it; it is often described as "emotional numbing" or dissociation, depersonalization or in its chronic form depersonalization disorder.

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