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• n  objectivity and detachment
  her manner assumed a dispassion and dryness very unlike her usual tone

• The chilling dispassion with which Hawkins could dissect a friend's motives is apparent in his remarks on the widow's death.
• His faith in the dispassion ate application of reason to the muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's.
• It was not an object lesson in Buddhist dispassion.

• dispassionateness
• dryness

Quotes

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• Pico Iyer in San Francisco Chronicle
  Among the standouts is Pico Iyer, a writer of Indian descent who grew up in England and California, describes himself as a member of a "transcontinental tribe of wanderers" who are "seasoned experts at dispassion," but not so good at...
• Daniel Goldhagen in New York Times
  I'm your son in many ways,Daniel says, analyzing his own awkward silence, "and your dispassion is my own."