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Objectivity and detachment
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dispassionateness
Word definitions for dispassionateness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispassionate \Dis*pas"sion*ate\, a. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. --Clarendon. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being dispassionate.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. objectivity and detachment [syn: dispassion ]
Usage examples of dispassionateness.
Cadwallader came to be walking on the slope of the lawn near the great conservatory at Freshitt Hall, holding the "Times" in his hands behind him, while he talked with a trout-fisher's dispassionateness about the prospects of the country to Sir James Chettam.
It was a time, according to a noticeable article in the "Pioneer," when the crying needs of the country might well counteract a reluctance to public action on the part of men whose minds had from long experience acquired breadth as well as concentration, decision of judgment as well as tolerance, dispassionateness as well as energy-- in fact, all those qualities which in the melancholy experience of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings.
He read books on Irish history, with scholarly dispassionateness reading authors on either side of that vexed question.