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disinterest

noun
/dɪsˈɪntɹɛst/UK

Etymology

From dis- + interest.

  1. derived from intersum
  2. derived from intersum
  3. derived from interesse
  4. inherited from interest
  5. prefixed as disinterest — “dis + interest”

Definitions

  1. An absence of interest (attention or curiosity).

    • She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.
    • The root of the matter, as a letter and an editorial in our November issue pointed out, is disinterest in the railway, whatever it does.

  2. The absence of interest (bias or stake).

    • He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […]

  3. What is contrary to interest or advantage.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To render disinterested.

      • The Moscow Bolsheviks may disinterest themselves in the fate of Ukrainian or White Russian territories under Polish rule; but nationalist States in the Ukraine or White Russia could never evince such indifference.

    2. Free of personal bias.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disinterest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01disinterest02curiosity03arouses04arouse05stupor06torpor07apathy

A definitional loop anchored at disinterest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at disinterest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA