disinterest

Converse of object

• show: What I find even more disconcerting is that South African architects appeared to have shown a disinterest in the Indaba.
• express: Clients who express disinterest in social interaction are often thought to be depressed.
• feign: Young men can be good at feigning disinterest or resistance.

Adjective modifier

• apparent: The World Churches have so much to teach the United Free Church; why therefore such apparent disinterest?
• total: There can be little doubt that Tom's greatest disappointment was his son's total disinterest in the family business.
• complete: The German side declares its complete political disinterest in these areas.
• general: From a general disinterest in cross country racing, the long distance endurance events have evolved.
• initial: Initial German Government disinterest resulted in slow development and production.
• such: Inevitably, without remedial action, such disinterest seems destined to lead to a slow leeching away of members.

Preposition: in

• politics: We deplore the indifference and disinterest in politics of a large number of Northern Ireland people.
• farming: Fifteen case studies of farmers determined to survive in the face of falling incomes and an apparent disinterest in farming in this country.
• matter: The principal one was how to make the institution accountable and transparent, given the average member's total disinterest in such matters.
• event: There is no mechanism to express disinterest in this event.
• thing: This disinterest in things classical did not encourage the flowering of a neoclassical culture.
• school: He added that the " cultural disinheritance " of 21st century Western life has led to the pupils ' disinterest in schools.