disinterest

5 definitions found

disinterest - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, p. a.
     Disinterested. [Obs.]
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           The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest
           and even.                                --Jer. Taylor.
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  Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, n.
     1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
        [Obs.] --Glanvill.
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     2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private
        advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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  Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, v. t.
     To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.]
     --Feltham.
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disinterest - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  disinterest
      n 1: tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn:
           disinterest, neutrality]

disinterest - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "disinterest":
     Olympian detachment, 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, 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, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness,
     self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness,
     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