Dispassionate means judging without letting feeling in. A dispassionate analysis, dispassionate and fair, remain dispassionate.
It is praise for an assessment and a criticism of a person, since being dispassionate about a friend's trouble is cold. It does not mean uninterested, which is the confusion the word invites.
1adjectivedispassionateJudging without letting feeling in.
“A judge must take a dispassionate view of the case, whatever her personal feelings.”
dispassionate is a quality.
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₁-
Medieval Latin
passiōnātus — affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered
Middle English
passionat
English
passionate
English, today
dispassionate
From dis- + passionate. passionate comes from Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate. Compare French passionné.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA