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Disinterest vs Dispassionate - What's the difference?

disinterest | dispassionate |

As adjectives the difference between disinterest and dispassionate

is that disinterest is (obsolete) disinterested while dispassionate is not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice.

As a noun disinterest

is (obsolete) what is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.

As a verb disinterest

is to render disinterested.

disinterest

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
    • (Glanvill)
  • The absence of bias; impartiality.
  • *2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 125:
  • *:He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […].
  • A lack of interest; indifference, apathy.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To render disinterested.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) disinterested
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even.

    Anagrams

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    dispassionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice

    • Synonyms

    * nonpassionate * unpassionate

    Antonyms

    * passionate

    Derived terms

    * dispassionately * dispassionateness