disinterest

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1. disinterest - Noun

2. disinterest - Adjective

3. disinterest - Verb

Meaning

Disinterested.

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.

Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.

To divest of interest or interested motives.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it. Scott Lynch

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. Tanith Lee

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids. Bobby Hull

Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God. Meister Eckhart

Material exhaustion and disinterest in material rewards. Bhakti Tirtha Swami

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good. John Ralston Saul

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