What does disinterest mean?
Disinterest means An absence of interest (attention or curiosity)..
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/dɪsˈɪntɹɛst/ · noun
An absence of interest (attention or curiosity)..
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:
The Moscow Bolsheviks may disinterest themselves in the fate of Ukrainian or White Russian territories under Polish rule; but nationalist States in the Ukraine or White Russia could never evince such indifference.
[…] if they [weaker people] can be rul’d by an understanding without, when they have none within, they shall receive this advantage, that their owne passions shall not transport their mindes, and the divisions and weaknesse of their owne sense and notices shall not make them uncertaine, and indeterminate; and the measures they shall walke by, shall be disinterest and even, and dispassionate, and full of observation.
Use disinterest when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disinterest means An absence of interest (attention or curiosity)..
Common synonyms include apathy, indifference, uninterest, impartiality.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.
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