disinterested

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISINTERESTED, adjective 1. Uninterested; indifferent; free from self-interest; having no personal interest or private advantage in a question or affair. It is important that a judge should be perfectly disinterested 2. Not influenced or dictated by private advantage; as a disinterested decision. [This word is more generally used than uninterested.]
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