dispassion

Examples

• All

• We need passion, we need dispassion and we need compassion.

• Over time, the calm dispassion of science juxtaposed with the hysteria of religion had a cumulative impact.

  Blog text (10)

• For justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice.

  The Hateful Eight (2015)

• And that dispassion is the very essence of justice.

  The Hateful Eight (2015)

• At times, I envy this dispassion.

  Blog text (34)

• She spoke about him with dispassion.

  Fiction book (1997)

• "I'm very sorry, sir," Camacho said with professional dispassion.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Their dispassion often reflects a lack of Western news coverage about the Palestinian claims, especially after Arafat's death.

  Academic text (2007)

• I imagined his white face and bald head in the darkness of his study, the face that all my life had been pouched with dispassion.

  Fiction book (1998)

• He tells the tale of the huge black migration with lucidity, dispassion, and the kind of extensive original research that has characterized his articles in the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere for more than a decade.

  Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

D

detachment

vsdispassion

21 6.1

A lack of emotional involvement with people or situations

adds impartiality and lack of feeling beyond mere distance

D

disinterest

vsdispassion

1 5.6

Not taking sides because of personal feelings when deciding

adds unemotional and impartial stance beyond simple lack of concern

I

impassivity

vsdispassion

1 8.8

A lack of emotion or visible reaction

includes impartial judgment and lack of personal involvement too

D

dryness

vsdispassion

1 5.8

A way of speaking and behaving that shows little warmth or feeling

is colder in tone and less about fairness or impartiality

D

disinterestedness

vsdispassion

• Formal

1 8.1

The quality of not taking sides and acting fairly without personal gain

adds unemotional distance to mere impartiality

D

dispassionateness

vsdispassion

• Formal

8.5

Not taking sides and not showing strong feelings when judging people or events

is the standard term for that same unemotional impartial state

I

impassiveness

vsdispassion

7.9

A lack of visible emotion

is similar but also implies fair unemotional consideration

U

unemotionality

vsdispassion

8.3

A state of showing little or no feeling

adds impartiality and freedom from personal bias to emotionless state

Antonyms

P

passion

463 2.5

A very strong feeling that makes someone act, like love or anger

I

involvement

418 2.9

Taking part in an activity, group, or discussion

How Passionate

passion

463 2.5

bias

• Specialized

261 5.2

partiality

3 6.7

dispassion

• Formal

1 7.3

detachment

21 6.1

neutrality

22 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology