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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISINTEREST, n. [dis and interest.]
1. What is contrary to the interest or advantage; disadvantage; injury. [Little used or not at all.]
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage.
DISINTEREST, v.t. To disengage from private interest or personal advantage. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Date: 1612 to cause to regard something with no interest or concern II. noun Date: 1658 1. disinterestedness 2. lack of interest ; indifference

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 impartiality. 2 disp. lack of interest; unconcern.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disinterest Dis*in"ter*est, p. a. Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. --Jer. Taylor.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disinterest 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disinterest Dis*in"ter*est, v. t. To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] --Feltham.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If there is disinterest in something, people are not interested in it. The fact Liberia has no oil seems to explain foreign disinterest in its internal affairs... N-UNCOUNT: oft N in n

Moby Thesaurus

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