disinterest Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement
    neutrality.

WordNet

Dis*in"ter*est participial adjective
Definitions
  1. Disinterested. Obs.
    The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
Dis*in"ter*est noun
Definitions
  1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. Obs. Glanvill.
  2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. Obs. Johnson.
Dis*in"ter*est transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To divest of interest or interested motives. Obs. Feltham.

Webster 1913