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English Dictionary: dispassionateness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dispassionateness
n
  1. objectivity and detachment; "her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone"
    Synonym(s): dispassion, dispassionateness, dryness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dispassionate \Dis*pas"sion*ate\, a.
      1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or
            carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm;
            composed.
  
                     Wise and dispassionate men.               --Clarendon.
  
      2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or
            bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a
            dispassionate view.
  
      Syn: Calm; cool; composed serene; unimpassioned; temperate;
               moderate; impartial; unruffled. --
               {Dis*pas"sion*ate*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*pas"sion*ate*ness},
               n.
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