dispassionateness
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Noun (1)
- objectivity and detachment“her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone”Synonyms: dispassiondrynessType of unemotionality, emotionlessness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“dispassionateness” is listed under Dispassionate.
Dis·pas′sion·ate adjective
1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Wise and dispassionate men.— Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon
2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.
Synonyms: Calm; cool; composed serene; unimpassioned; temperate; moderate; impartial; unruffled.
— Dis·pas′wb-a1′>′sion·ate·ly, adverb — Dis·pas′wb-a1′>′sion·ate·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54