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disinterestedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disinterestedness \Dis*in"ter*est*ed*ness\, n. The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.
That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of
which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes
found in woman.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being disinterested.
WordNet
n. freedom from bias or selfish motives
Usage examples of "disinterestedness".
Newcastle had been more than forty-five years in the cabinet, and this utter disregard to money-making exhibits his patriotism in a strong light: few would have served their country so long without well replenishing their coffers, especially at that age, when the virtues of disinterestedness and self-abnegation were exotic rather than indigenous to the human heart.
Lord Wharncliffe, and, secondly, for your so chivalrous disinterestedness in having yourself declined the royal mark of favour offered to you by Mr.
All the theories which have refined and exalted humanity, or those which have been devised as alleviations of its mistakes and evils, have been based upon the elementary emotions of disinterestedness, which we feel to constitute the majesty of our nature.
He exhibited more animation over the affairs of the government than he did over his own,--an evidence at once of his disinterestedness and his patriotism.