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Dispassionate vs Unaffectionate - What's the difference?

dispassionate | unaffectionate |

As adjectives the difference between dispassionate and unaffectionate

is that dispassionate is not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice while unaffectionate is not affectionate; dispassionate.

dispassionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice

    • Synonyms

    * nonpassionate * unpassionate

    Antonyms

    * passionate

    Derived terms

    * dispassionately * dispassionateness

    unaffectionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not affectionate; dispassionate.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 22, author=Jennifer Senior, title=Tabloid Queen, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=She was the granddaughter of the German Jewish banking magnate Jacob H. Schiff and was raised by a distant, unaffectionate mother so filled with assimilationist anxiety that she refused to let her daughter attend the debutante balls of other Jewish girls. }}

    Derived terms

    * unaffectionately