dispassion.

Calm impartiality in which feeling does not dominate judgment.

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Words that belong together

• with dispassion
• judicial dispassion

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She described the quarrel with a dispassion that surprised both families.

Judicial dispassion kept his sympathy from shaping the verdict.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.