Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dispassionate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dispassionate \Dis*pas"sion*ate\, a.
1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or
carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm;
composed.
Wise and dispassionate men. --Clarendon.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dispassionate
adj : unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice; "a journalist
should be a dispassionate reporter of fact"
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