n.
inability, or a facade thereof, to talk about, understand, or feel one's
emotions; sometimes results in a real or manufactured inability to understand others
comes from the
Greek roots a + hapto + thymos
(without +
touch + emotions)
His ahaptothymic tendencies in conversation had me worried.
He
always avoided
talking about his feelings, so I started to
think that he had an ahaptothymia.