dispassionate

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"I wish all gentlemen of birth and consideration viewed the question in the same calm, dispassionate, and profound light that you do.

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  1. adjective Devoid of or unaffected by passion, emotion, or bias. See Synonyms at fair1.

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  • The athiest, it is implied, is rational, cool, dispassionate -- and therefore more trustworthy. —  Spiritual Tramp
  • A SCIENCE instructor attempting to objectively & dispassionately summarize the views of a particular religion: religion to the religionee is not objective nor dispassionate, and so this attempt will never satisfy. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Funding for science is something I think should be quite generous, dispassionate, and directed by people who have enough degrees behind their name to make three bowls of alphabet soup. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • As understandable as this may be, it is hardly the act of a rational, dispassionate, and precise scholar. —  Hitchens Watch
  • Convince me that I am cruel and heartless and completely dispassionate, and there's another side to this that I'm not seeing. —  Snapshot
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  1. from dis- privative + passionate. Cf. Spanish desapasionado = Portuguese desapassionado = Italian disappassionato.
 

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/dɪsˈpæʃənət/
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