'Dispassionateness' definitions:

Definition of 'dispassionateness'

From: WordNet
noun
Objectivity and detachment; "her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone" [syn: dispassion, dispassionateness, dryness]

Definition of 'Dispassionateness'

From: GCIDE
  • Dispassionate \Dis*pas"sion*ate\, a.
  • 1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. [1913 Webster]
  • Wise and dispassionate men. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

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