disinterest

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Latin dis-

Old French des-bor.

Latin dis-bor.

Middle English dis-

English dis-

English interest

English disinterest

From dis- + interest.

uncountable An absence of interest (attention or curiosity). She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.
uncountable The absence of interest (bias or stake). He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […]
obsolete, uncountable What is contrary to interest or advantage. 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

transitive To render disinterested. 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.

obsolete Free of personal bias. […] 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 indeterm