as in detachment
the absence of emotional involvement
viewed the problem with the weary dispassion of a police officer who had seen everything
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Recent Examples of dispassion
Eliot loved hearing Claire talk about people, her combination of warmth and dispassion.
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Literary Hub,
25 Nov. 2025
In the play’s most striking image, the dead sit in the Grover’s Corners graveyard in rows—rather like a theatre audience—watching the living with quiet dispassion.
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Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2024
Nell shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling.
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Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2024
And the agency has consistently performed those duties with rigor and dispassion.
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Eva Temkin,
STAT,
14 Dec. 2023
See All Example Sentences for dispassion
Literary Hub,
25 Nov. 2025
In the play’s most striking image, the dead sit in the Grover’s Corners graveyard in rows—rather like a theatre audience—watching the living with quiet dispassion.
—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2024
Nell shows a remarkable understanding of the song, a sense of dispassion that is both beautiful and chilling.
—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2024
And the agency has consistently performed those duties with rigor and dispassion.
—
Eva Temkin,
STAT,
14 Dec. 2023
See All Example Sentences for dispassion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispassion
Noun
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There was empathy, but also a sense of professional detachment.
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After a short hike through a loblolly pine forest to the beach, there's a feeling of near-complete detachment from the rest of the world.
Noun
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Slot, as head coach, was more of a middle manager; someone who acted with the objectivity of a civil servant and the occasional bluntness of a corrections officer.
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This is a common mistake born from our natural lack of objectivity about ourselves, and those at the C-suite and board levels are not immune.
Noun
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Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
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The bureaucratic coldness of Bolshevik Communism and the violent regressions of Fascism were yet worse.
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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispassion. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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