What's the difference between dispassionate and unemotional?

Dispassionate


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
  • (a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was not very active politically, but "current affairs", as he more dispassionately called it, had come to fascinate him and he left university with "a hunger to be involved in the game in some way," Ganesh says.
  • (2) Any reduction of emissions contributes to the prevention of dangerous climate change and as a developed country the Netherlands should take the lead in this.” After a legal campaign that took two and a half years to get to its first hearing in April, normally dispassionate lawyers were visibly moved by the judge’s words.
  • (3) Céspedes has the potential to be a dynamic player and from a dispassionate viewpoint, it’s probably a no-brainer of a trade.
  • (4) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
  • (5) Only once during the trial did a crack appear in his dispassionate facade.
  • (6) In the first case, we have to be dispassionate even when the issues arouse great passion.
  • (7) Prompt, dispassionate physician counseling, wider provision of National Health Service facilities, and uniform service in all districts would also be beneficial.
  • (8) Real hope and opportunity, if it is to arise at all, will do so from a raw and dispassionate assessment of the scale of the challenge faced by the global community."
  • (9) Even more seriously, in the short-term, voters believe that the Smith commission’s proposals on fresh powers – the so-called “vow” – are a letdown and not, as Labour claims and dispassionate analysis confirms, a big devolutionary package.
  • (10) In the absence of dispassionate investigation, proper legal process, or even official regret, the suspicion of state complicity remains.
  • (11) Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
  • (12) From now on, Griffith-Jones wrote, for the abuse to remain legal, Mau Mau suspects must be beaten mainly on their upper body, "vulnerable parts of the body should not be struck, particularly the spleen, liver or kidneys", and it was important that "those who administer violence … should remain collected, balanced and dispassionate".
  • (13) I can't find the words to describe dispassionately what I have gone through but I remember another reason why I gave up on New Labour, on my country.
  • (14) The rather neutral ground of college allows for relatively dispassionate examination of traditional moral teaching and peer group values.
  • (15) Comments concerning a report on the consequences of induced abortion which cite the author's book, ''Legal Abortion: the English Experience'' focus on the author's desire to provide a dispassionate survey on an emotionally charged issue.
  • (16) We’re an independent company and we are simply doing what economists do and we are impartial and dispassionate in the way that we conduct our economic analysis.” Morrison said the report proved that the Coalition’s slow and steady approach on negative gearing was the right one.
  • (17) Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest.
  • (18) It is hoped this new medical technology will satisfy the desire of Mackenzie for "comparative evaluation of medical remedies and different modes of treatment of disease by the lynx-eyed scrutiny of dispassionate analysis."
  • (19) On all sides the fixation on the “genocide” issue is likely to cloud any dispassionate assessment of the verdict, as if crimes against humanity were not horrific enough.
  • (20) The dominant belief that all politicians are contemptible, promoted not just by public entertainers like Hislop but by rightwing libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes among many others in the media, is not grounded in fact, is profoundly pessimistic, and is far from being a dispassionate depiction of the world.

Unemotional


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fortunately, tables of whatever type are relatively unemotive and a misunderstanding about what belongs in the "table" group is unlikely to put anyone's back up.
  • (2) I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional,” Clinton said.
  • (3) The higher rates of unemotional and emotional responding with both CDP and VPA depend on the dipsogenic and disinhibiting effects by both drugs.
  • (4) I am accustomed to seeing our current situation as a feature of the past 30 years; a post-ideological landscape, in which the great left-right clashes of the 80s gave way to Blair (and Clinton's) third way on one side, and the unemotional, rational free market on the other.
  • (5) If Golda Meir could notice the similarities,” he said, smiling, “then anybody can recognise Palestinians as human beings who ought to be treated with equal rights.” For someone who holds these views in a society that does not, legally, extend legal rights to all Palestinians under its rule, El-Ad is also strikingly unemotional.
  • (6) Our results show that CDP and VPA under both the unemotional (variable ratio reinforcement schedule 20%) and the emotional (continuous reinforced schedule associated with electric shock) components significantly increase responding in the Skinner box.
  • (7) Situations perceived as more stressful for women than for men wer categorized by factor analysis, yielding the following constellation of maladaptive stress responses particularly salient for women: (a) fear of unemotional relationships, (b) fear of being unattractive, (c) fear of victimization, (d) fear of behaving assertively, and (e) fear of not being nurturant.
  • (8) With the VPA-Nx association the responding rate is lower than that of the control under the unemotional component while under the emotional component the increase in responding is reduced compared to the VPA alone.
  • (9) The different rate of emotional and unemotional responding with CDP-Nx and VPA-Nx associations indicates a specific influence on GABAergic and other systems by CDP and VPA.
  • (10) With CDP-Nx association the increase in responding under the unemotional component is less than in the case of the benzodiazepine alone, while under the emotional component the increase in responding is not appreciably affected.
  • (11) Conversation with Iannucci bumps around; he tends to answer questions fairly briefly and unemotionally, and sometimes a full answer emerges only after returning to a topic a few times.
  • (12) The general, seemingly unemotional, almost uninvolved.
  • (13) He appeared to have regained some of his lost composure, closer to the crowd-pleasing orator of the 2008 campaign trail than the cautious, unemotional, stick-to-the-teleprompter persona he has adopted as president.
  • (14) This usually distant and unemotional women is grinning and cheering all evening.
  • (15) She looks at me as if from a distance, her expression removed and her words curiously unemotional.
  • (16) The tragedy is that this epidemic could have been nipped in the bud months ago if governments had paid heed to organisations such as Medecins sans Frontières whose newsletters portrayed the horror of the situation in unemotional terms.