Disinterested vs Inured - What's the difference?
disinterested | inured | Related terms |
Having no stake or interest in the outcome; free of bias, impartial.
* 1791 , (James Boswell), Life of Samuel Johnson :
* 1919 , , :
*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 220:
*:People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.
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Uninterested, lacking interest.
* 1684 , Contempl. State of Man I. x
* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 43:
* 1967 , Tommy Frazer, The Sun (Baltimore), "A 'Doctor' Of Karate", March 27
(inure)
To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 465:
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) To take effect, to be operative.
* Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
Disinterested is a related term of inured.
As an adjective disinterested
is having no stake or interest in the outcome; free of bias, impartial.As a verb inured is
(inure).disinterested
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sir, you have a right to that kind of respect, and are arguing for yourself. I am supporting the principle, and am disinterested in doing it, as I have no such right.
- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; [...]
- How dis-interested are they in all Worldly matters, since they fling their Wealth and Riches into the Sea.
- Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested .
- Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.
Usage notes
*Leading authorities consider usage of this word with the meaning of uninterested acceptable,References
inured
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Verb
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*inure
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Verb
- To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured . / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.