Definition of "disinterested" []

• Free of bias and self-interest; impartial: "disinterested scientific opinion on fluorides in the water supply” ( Ellen R. Shell). (adjective)
• Not interested; indifferent: "supremely disinterested in all efforts to find a peaceful solution” ( C.L. Sulzberger). (adjective)
• Having lost interest. (adjective)

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• "He had never till now called upon me to make the shadow of a return for all his disinterested love -- _disinterested_, ah, was it so?"
• "The first of these defines aesthetic appreciation as _disinterested interest, _ gratuitously identifying self-interest with the practical pursuit of advantages we have not yet got; and overlooking the fact that such appreciation implies enjoyment and is so far the very reverse of disinterested."
• "By the term disinterested I mean detached from ulterior objects."