dispassionate
[dis-pash-uh-nit]
- free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
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Origin of dispassionate
Synonyms
See more synonyms for dispassionate on Thesaurus.comcool, unemotional, uninvolved; fair, just.
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Contemporary Examples
Now would seem like a strange time for a dispassionate, de-politicized immigration solution to emerge from the House.
Whether you can get outside your own skin or sexuality and look at the world with a dispassionate eye.
Bring ‘Another Country’ to Broadway: Why a Hit British Classic Needs Its New York MomentTom Teodorczuk
June 2, 2014
All written in a similar mode: authoritative, declamatory, distant, dispassionate, impersonal, and (allegedly) neutral.
Precisely because of their obsession with numbers and data, they are dispassionate about social issues.
This dispassionate examination of youthful passion is encased in a rather airless narrative structure.
‘Jeune et Jolie’ (‘Young and Beautiful’) Opens at Cannes With Model Marine VacthRichard Porton
May 16, 2013
Historical Examples
Being a dispassionate organism, it can never be perfectly informed.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
“I shall never forgive you, Nina,” said Almayer, in a dispassionate voice.
Almayer's FollyJoseph Conrad
You are a witness, sir—a dispassionate, unprejudiced witness.
The life is their own life; the record is that of a dispassionate observer.
Epic and RomanceW. P. Ker
The members of a republic, above all other men, should be candid and dispassionate.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.Washington Irving
dispassionate
- devoid of or uninfluenced by emotion or prejudice; objective; impartial
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Word Origin and History for dispassionate
adj.
1590s, from dis- "the opposite of" (see dis-) + passionate. Related: Dispassionately.
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