Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, p. a.
Disinterested. [Obs.]
The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest
and even. --Jer. Taylor.
Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, n.
1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
[Obs.] --Glanvill.
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private
advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] --Johnson.
Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, v. t.
To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.]
--Feltham.
Source : WordNet®
disinterest
n : tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn: {neutrality}]