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Dispassion

Definition: Dispassion

Dispassion

Noun

1. Objectivity and detachment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Dispassion

Synonym: dispassionateness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dispassion

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitability

Noun: inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Dispassion

"Dispassion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dispassion" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dispassion

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dispassion supreme

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dispassion

Language Translations for "dispassion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qetësi (calm, calmness, composure, coolness, countenance, ease, equanimity, imperturbability, keep quiet, languor, mum, order, peace, placidity, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietness, quietude, serenity, shut up, silence, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, unconcern), paanësi (equity, fair play, fairness, impartiality, infinity), mungesë pasioni, mungesë paragjykimi. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هدوء (calm, calmness, composure, countenance, ease, philosophy, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, remission, silence, still, stillness, tranquility, tranquillity), ‏نزاهة (disinterest, impartiality, integrity, plain dealing, probity, squareness). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezaujatost (disinterestedness, open mindedness). (various references)

   

French

  

calme (dispassionate). (various references)

   

German

  

Sachlichkeit (matter-of-factness, objectivity, practicality, pragmatism, relevance). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קור רוח (composure, coolness, nonchalance, presence of mind, sang froid). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érzéketlenség (anaesthesia, analgesia, apathy, blind spot, bluntness, brutality, callousness, impassibility, impassivity, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility, stoniness, stupor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

realit . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ispassionday

   

Russian 

  

бесстрастие (impassivity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nepristrasanost. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desapasión. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

безстрасність. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dispassion

Derivations

Words beginning with "dispassion": dispassionate, dispassionately, dispassionateness, dispassionatenesses, dispassions. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dispassion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disassoc, dispension. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dispassion

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-s"

-2 letters: adiposis, isospins, passions, sinopias.

-3 letters: isospin, passion, sinopia.

-4 letters: adonis, danios, dipsas, dipsos, iodins, opsins, pianos, poinds, sasins.

-5 letters: adios, apods, apsis, aspis, danio, dipso, donas, dopas, iodin, nipas, oasis, oidia, opsin, ossia, padis, pains, piano, pians, pinas, pions, pisos, podia, poind, ponds, psoai, psoas, sadis, saids, sains, sands, sapid, sasin, snaps, snips, soaps.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-s"
 

+1 letter: dispassions.

 

+2 letters: dissipations.

 

+3 letters: dispassionate, dispensations, preadmissions.

 

+4 letters: antispasmodics, custodianships, dispensatories.

 

+5 letters: antidepressions, dispassionately, endoparasitisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dispassion


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 70 61 73 73 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0070 0061 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38758582678585758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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