disinterest
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disinterest \Dis*in"ter*est\, n.
1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
[Obs.] --Glanvill.
[1913 Webster]
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private
advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] --Johnson.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "disinterest":
Olympian detachment, accidia, acedia, aloofness, altruism, apathy,
ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, blunt, boredom,
carelessness, casualness, chill, comatoseness, commitment,
consecration, cool, damp, dampen, dedication, deflect, detachment,
deter, devotion, disaffect, discourage, disincline,
disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard,
disregardfulness, distract, divert, dullness, easygoingness,
heartlessness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, humility,
impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inappetence, inattention,
incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism,
indifferentness, indiscrimination, indispose, inexcitability,
insouciance, intellectual inertia, lack of affect,
lack of appetite, lack of interest, lackadaisicalness, languidness,
lassitude, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, loftiness,
mindlessness, modesty, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance,
numbness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness,
phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, put off, quench,
recklessness, regardlessness, repel, resignation, resignedness,
sacrifice, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial,
self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness,
self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness,
self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness,
sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness,
spunklessness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, supineness,
torpidity, torpidness, torpor, turn aside, turn away, turn from,
turn off, unacquisitiveness, unanxiousness, unbias, unbiasedness,
unconcern, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness,
unpossessiveness, unselfishness, unsolicitousness, wean from,
withdrawal, withdrawnness
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