Definition of "disinterest" in English

noun

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

   • She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.

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

3. (obsolete) What is contrary to interest or advantage.

   • 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:

verb

1. (transitive) To render disinterested.

adjective

1. (obsolete) Free of personal bias.