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Recent Examples of dispassion Eliot loved hearing Claire talk about people, her combination of warmth and 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
  • Those complications included nail detachment (also known as onycholysis, which is when the nail separates from the nail bed, per the Cleveland Clinic) which impacted 39% of GLP-1 users and 9% of controls.
    — Korin Miller, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026
  • For him, the camera was never an excuse for detachment from human suffering.
    — Simon Ellery, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • An algorithm trained on incomplete or unrepresentative data can reproduce inequities already present in healthcare, except now those decisions arrive wrapped in the appearance of objectivity.
    — Paula Ferrada, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The house was a metaphor for the coldness of a relationship that’s faded and atrophied.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The danger occurs if that ruthlessness veers into institutional coldness.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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“Dispassion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispassion. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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