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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uninterest en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + interest.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) Lack of interest; indifference.
    • Not many general topics appealed to Sophie, and the question of Wales or being Welsh stood high in her uninterests. 1986, Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils, page 49:
    • 'Yeah,' said my delightful inquisitor, with an attempt at casual indifference or uninterest that to the tutored eye only revealed all the more starkly her rising excitement […] 1997, John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure:

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Relateds

disinterest