'Disinterest' definitions:
Definition of 'disinterest'
(from WordNet)
noun
Tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn: disinterest, neutrality]
Definition of 'Disinterest'
From: GCIDE
- Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, p. a. Disinterested. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disinterest'
From: GCIDE
- Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, n.
- 1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disinterest'
From: GCIDE
- Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, v. t. To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] --Feltham. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disinterest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Olympian detachment,
- 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