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Disinterest   /dɪsˈɪntərəst/   Listen
Disinterest

noun
1.
Tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement.  Synonym: neutrality.






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"Disinterest" Quotes from Famous Books



... unless we abandon the whole basis of the League of Nations, disinterest ourselves in an attack upon the existence of a nation which is a member of that league and whose life is in jeopardy. That covenant, as I understand it, does not contemplate, necessarily, military action in support of the imperilled ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... convicted himself when he asked for the double room next to the one occupied by Katherine and me and offered to pay the regular rate for two. He thinks that he is able to maintain an appearance of utter disinterest in us and throw us off our guard. But he overdoes the thing. He makes too big an effort to appear unconscious of our presence. It doesn't jibe at all with the expression of decided interest I have caught ...
— Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes - The Quest of a Summer Vacation • Stella M. Francis

... Mosby. If General Pope wasn't going to take care of his own rear, somebody ought to do it for him, and who better than John Mosby? He went promptly to Stuart, pointing out Pope's disinterest in his own lines of supply and communication, and asked that he be given about twenty men and detailed to get into Pope's rear and see what sort of ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper



Words linked to "Disinterest" :   neutrality, tolerance



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