unresponsiveness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events

From unresponsive + -ness.

"You say there were letters?" he exclaimed, forgetting his previous unresponsiveness. — In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The unresponsiveness of the Federal Government to the protection of its own informa- tion did not set a good example for industry, and their comput- ers, too, remained vulnerable. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
Champney, apparently unheeding her unresponsiveness, rose quickly, shook himself together, and suddenly burst into a mighty laughter that is best comparable to the inextinguishable species of the blessed gods. — Flamsted quarries, Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

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