adj
Meaning 1
Free of personal bias.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disinterested
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
disinterest
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪsˈɪntɹɛst/
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S IH1 N T ER0 AH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An absence of interest (attention or curiosity).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: apathy, indifference, uninterest
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The absence of interest (bias or stake).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impartiality
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
What is contrary to interest or advantage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
Examples
- 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:
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disadvantage
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To render disinterested.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: neutrality
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tolerance
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English interest English disinterest From dis- + interest.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: desinterès — a lack of interest
- Dutch: desinteresse — a lack of interest
- Esperanto: malemo — a lack of interest
- Finnish: välinpitämättömyys — a lack of interest
- Finnish: kiinnostumattomuus — a lack of interest
- French: désintérêt — a lack of interest
- German: Desinteresse — a lack of interest
- Hungarian: érdektelenség — a lack of interest
- Hungarian: közömbösség — a lack of interest
- Hungarian: közöny — a lack of interest
- Irish: neamhshuim — a lack of interest
- Māori: arokore — a lack of interest
- Occitan: desinterès — a lack of interest
- Polish: brak zainteresowania — a lack of interest
- Romanian: dezinteres — a lack of interest
- Spanish: desinterés — a lack of interest
- Swedish: ointresse — a lack of interest
- Catalan: desinteressar — to render disinterested
- Finnish: saada välinpitämättömäksi — to render disinterested
- Portuguese: desinteressar — to render disinterested