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disinterestedness

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 Definition: [n]  freedom from bias or selfish motives
 
 See Also: impartiality, nonpartisanship

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.

 

 

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