Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
objectivity and detachment;
- Example: "her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone"[syn: dispassion, dispassionateness, dryness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dispassion \Dis*pas"sion\, n.
Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy. --Sir W.
Temple.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dispassion
n 1: objectivity and detachment; "her manner assumed a
dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone" [syn:
dispassion, dispassionateness, dryness]