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Dispassionate (adj) means Calm and fair, without being swayed by feelings or bias.

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Calm and fair, without being swayed by feelings or bias.

"I am an indifferent player. If the tactics of the game have been reduced to machinery and the combinations are controlled by a dispassionate automaton, the one-tenth would constitute a winning factor." — Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados (1923)

"Yes, I suppose the news should just be a dispassionate list of all the events that have occurred the world over during the day. That would be good. Except, of course, it would take forever." — Jesse Armstrong, Local Zero (2004)

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