disinterest

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/dɪsˈɪntɹɛst/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An absence of interest (attention or curiosity). uncountable
    — She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.
  2. The absence of interest (bias or stake). uncountable
    — He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […]
  3. What is contrary to interest or advantage. obsolete,uncountable
    — 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:
动词 v.
  1. To render disinterested. transitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Free of personal bias. obsolete
    — […] if they [weaker people] can be rul’d by an understanding without, when they have none within, they shall receive this advantage, that their owne passions shall not transport their mindes, and the divisions and weaknesse of their owne sense and notices shall not make them uncertaine, and indeterminate; and the measures they shall walke by, shall be disinterest and even, and dispassionate, and full of observation.

词形变化

disinterests present,singular,third-person disinteresting participle,present disinterested participle,past disinterested past more disinterest comparative most disinterest superlative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English interest
English disinterest
From dis- + interest.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English interest
English disinterest
From dis- + interest.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English interest
English disinterest
From dis- + interest.
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