disinterest

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  1. noun Freedom from selfish bias or self-interest; impartiality.
  2. noun Lack of interest; indifference.
  3. transitive verb To divest of interest.

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  • With the onset of that disinterest, the black man melted away into the tar and the star passed on to another group of stranded souls. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • Now Bink was sure the Magician was only feigning disinterest, as was his fashion; the conclusion of their quest was at hand! —  The Source of Magic
  • As further proof of this disinterest, the date of the elections was only known by 26\% of those asked. —  cafebabel.com
  • In fact, a few songs here are leftovers from earlier unreleased sessions and singles sides to pad the album to 11 tracks, a clear sign of growing label disinterest after his relatively conceptually unified
  • Reactions range from disgust to disinterest, and even committed viewers may find it tough to slog through every single one of Swanberg's creations without reflecting on whether all the excess chatter and unclothed bodies are really necessary. —  New York Press
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  1. = Spanish desinterés = Portuguese desintercssc = Italian disinteresse, disinterest; as dis- privative + interest, n. Cf. disinterest, v.
  2. For *disinteress, from Old French desinteresser, French désinteresser = Spanish desinteresar = Portuguese desinteressar = Italian disinteressare, rid or discharge of interest, from Middle Latin dis- privative + interesse, interest: see dis- and interest, v. and n., and cf. disinterest, n.
 

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