Meaning of Disinterest | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An absence of interest (attention or curiosity).
   uncountable
2. The absence of interest (bias or stake).
   uncountable
3. What is contrary to interest or advantage.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.”

“[…] there was no neighbourliness, worth the word, between what the postmistress called ‘our old people’ and ‘that new set⟳’. Polite calls paid by the former on the latter were as politely returned; but at that it ended. The gulf of mutual disinterest was unbridged.”

“The root of the matter⟳, as a letter and an editorial in our November issue⟳ pointed out, is disinterest in the railway, whatever it does.”

“Salem politely admired the rifles, but his disinterest was hard to mask.”

“He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […]”

“1676, Joseph Glanvill, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: John Baker and Henry Mortlock, Essay 2 “Of Scepticism and Certainty,” p. 45, Now the progress⟳ of Knowledg being stopt by extreme Confidence on the one hand, and Diffidence on the other; I think⟳ that both are necessary, though perhaps one is more seasonable: For to believe⟳ that every thing is certain, is as great a disinterest to Science, as to conceive that nothing is so:”

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