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Composure vs Dispassion - What's the difference?

composure | dispassion |

As nouns the difference between composure and dispassion

is that composure is calmness of mind or matter, self-possession while dispassion is freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

composure

English

Noun

  • Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
  • * Milton
  • We seek peace and composure .
  • * I. Watts
  • When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .
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  • “Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Montenegro's early composure was shaken by that set-back and a visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1798 , author=Giacomo Casanova , title=The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt , chapter=92 citation , passage=He began to lose his composure , and made mistakes, his cards got mixed up, and his scoring was wild.}}
  • (obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
  • * Evelyn
  • Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
  • (obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
  • * Woodward
  • Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
  • (obsolete) frame; make; temperament
  • * Shakespeare
  • His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.
  • (obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (calmness) equanimity * (calmness) See also

    dispassion

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.
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