'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]