dispassion

[ dis-pash-uhn ]

noun

1. the state or quality of being unemotional or emotionally uninvolved.

dispassion

/ dɪsˈpæʃən /

noun

1. detachment; objectivity

Word History and Origins

Origin of dispassion¹

First recorded in 1685–95; dis- ¹ + passion

Example Sentences

Trust between doctors and patients depends on the exercise of medical, not moral, judgment, and we all benefit from their dispassion.

From Washington Post

Leaders here tend to speak about unemployment with the same dispassion that they talk about energy efficiency or outsourcing.

From The Daily Beast

Earthquake, forest fire—these two poets report with deceptive dispassion on the quotidian disasters unfolding around them.

From The Daily Beast

These demographic and geographic changes are simply in the order of things, and we observe them with dispassion.

From The Daily Beast

It was a terrible narrative which unfolded itself before her, made more terrible by the emotionless dispassion of the telling.

From Project Gutenberg

This dispassion, so difficult to reach, at last extends over all world-forms.

From Project Gutenberg

Dispassion, dis-pash′un, n. freedom from passion: a calm state of mind.

From Project Gutenberg

He was surprised to find himself looking at the girl with utter dispassion, as if nothing had happened.

From Project Gutenberg

All the same, they have shown the greatest of all qualities in a crisis—dispassion almost amounting to torpor.

From Project Gutenberg