Disinterest

Word DISINTEREST
Character 11
Hyphenation dis in ter est
Pronunciations /dɪsˈɪntɹɛst/

Definitions and meanings of "Disinterest"

What do we mean by disinterest?

Freedom from selfish bias or self-interest; impartiality. noun

Lack of interest; indifference. noun

To divest of interest. transitive verb

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. noun

Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage. noun

To rid of interest; disengage from private interest or advantage; destroy the interest of.

See disinteressed.

Disinterested. adjective

To divest of interest or interested motives. transitive verb

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. noun

Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. noun

A lack of interest; indifference; apathy. noun

The absence of selfish bias or self-interest; impartiality or detachment. noun

To render disinterested. verb

Tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement noun

A lack of interest.

The absence of bias.

What is contrary to interest or advantage.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Disinterest

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The word "disinterest" in example sentences

Author James Bradley has a wonderfully in-depth review of The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: Yet this disinterest is of a piece with the novel's desire to unsettle not by transporting the reader to a world unknown to them, but by taking the world they know and exposing the assumptions at its core. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Downing Street have released the initial details of Prime Minister Gollum Brown's Cabinet reshuffle to awed disinterest from the world. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

This calm disinterest is often why many organizations hire arbitrators to help negotiate contracts between say, a union and a company. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everybody wants approval, and disinterest is almost as bad as disapproval. ❋ Candid Engineer (2008)

As childish as it sounds, I think my disinterest comes from the lack of physical action in the book. ❋ Unknown (2007)

However, touch-screen voters were EIGHT times more likely not to register any vote at all -- obviously a sign of error on the machine's part rather than disinterest from the voter in the booth. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Against the explicitly but restrictively political mandates of critical and monumental histories, antiquarian history holds out the ideal of disinterest, even as disinterest is deemed no longer possible. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The Labour Party, if their past performance, and their present disinterest, is any indication, are even more opposed. ❋ Unknown (1955)

In fact, a few songs here are leftovers from earlier unreleased sessions and singles sides to pad the album to 11 tracks, a clear sign of growing label disinterest after his relatively conceptually unified

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