Definition of Dispassionateness

1. Noun. Objectivity and detachment. "Her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone"

Exact synonyms: Dispassion, Dryness
Generic synonyms: Emotionlessness, Unemotionality
Derivative terms: Dispassionate, Dry, Dry

Definition of Dispassionateness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being dispassionate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispassionateness

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dispatch table
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dispatched
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dispatchers
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Literary usage of Dispassionateness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1858)
"Political dispassionateness. 5. Freedom from national vanity. Defects as a historian: 1. Credulity—Belief in omens, oracles, dreams, 4c. ..."

2. The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy by Max E Muller, Friedrich Max Müller (1919)
"(3) Vairagya, dispassionateness, is the opposite of passion, and consists in not being dependent on or influenced by exte:^ al objects, such as sound, ..."

3. The Limits of Atheism; Or, Why Should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake (1874)
"Dispassionateness is a law of Affirmative Atheism. ... of judgment will also lead to dispassionateness of ..."

4. The Romantic Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1906)
"On the contrary, one of their most prominent traits is a cool dispassionateness, as of the deliberate, detached artist, remarkable in so young a man. ..."

5. Poet Lore (1898)
"Is the conclusion justifiable that the dispassionateness of Tertium Quid is ... Is the conclusion that dispassionateness guides to no truer knowledge than ..."

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