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Unconcerned vs Disinterest - What's the difference?

unconcerned | disinterest |

As adjectives the difference between unconcerned and disinterest

is that unconcerned is indifferent and having no interest; aloof while disinterest is disinterested.

As a noun disinterest is

what is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.

As a verb disinterest is

to render disinterested.

unconcerned

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Indifferent and having no interest; aloof.
  • Not worried, anxious or apprehensive.

    • See also

    * unencumbered * unbothered * carefree

    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.

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