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Disinterest

Disinterest Meaning & Definition
Disinterest Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Disinterest?

[n] tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement

Synonyms | Synonyms for Disinterest: neutrality

Related Terms | Find terms related to Disinterest: accidia | acedia | aloofness | altruism | apathy | ataraxia | ataraxy | benumbedness | blah | blahs | blunt | boredom | carelessness | casualness | chill | comatoseness | commitment | consecration | cool | damp | dampen | dedication | deflect | detachment | deter | devotion | disaffect | discourage | disincline | disinterestedness | dispassion | dispassionateness | disregard | disregardfulness | distract | divert | dullness | easygoingness | heartlessness | hebetude | heedlessness | hopelessness | humility | impartiality | impassiveness | impassivity | inappetence | inattention | incuriosity | incuriousness | indifference | indifferentism | indifferentness | indiscrimination | indispose | inexcitability | insouciance | intellectual inertia | lack of affect | lack of appetite | lack of interest | lackadaisicalness | languidness | lassitude | lethargicalness | lethargy | listlessness | loftiness | mindlessness | modesty | negligence | neutrality | nonchalance | numbness | Olympian detachment | passiveness | passivity | phlegm | phlegmaticalness | phlegmaticness | plucklessness | pococurantism | put off | quench | recklessness | regardlessness | repel | resignation | resignedness | sacrifice | self-abasement | self-abnegation | self-denial | self-devotion | self-effacement | self-forgetfulness | self-immolation | selflessness | self-neglect | self-neglectfulness | self-renouncement | self-sacrifice | self-subjection | sloth | sluggishness | sopor | soporifousness | spiritlessness | spunklessness | stolidity | stupefaction | stupor | supineness | torpidity | torpidness | torpor | turn aside | turn away | turn from | turn off | unacquisitiveness | unanxiousness | unbias | unbiasedness | unconcern | uninquisitiveness | uninterestedness | unmindfulness | unpossessiveness | unselfishness | unsolicitousness | wean from | withdrawal | withdrawnness

See Also | tolerance

Disinterest In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*in"ter*est\, p. a. Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. --Jer. Taylor.
\Dis*in"ter*est\, n. 1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] --Glanvill. 2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] --Johnson.
\Dis*in"ter*est\, v. t. To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] --Feltham.

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