lack of interest

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interest
noun
uk /ˈɪn.trest/ us /ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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Examples of lack of interest

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The reasons for refusals were mainly lackofinterest or time.
However, a reply like this, indicating one's lackofinterest in par ticipating in invited guessing, does not happen very often.
This omission must be attributed not to a lackofinterest, but rather to its perceived incommensurability with the basic principles of generative metrics.
A lackofinterest seems to come across; whereas the whole book is brief, we are at the end let down by our dismissal.
However, it is clearly a matter of intrinsic difficulty and not lackofinterest that little is known concerning the quantitative nature of recurrence.
The tone of her comment, equally, is suggestive less of imposed exclusion than of a genuine lackofinterest, or even disdain.
Performance factors that may affect linguistic performance include fatigue, distraction, lack of attention, lackofinterest, and confusion about task demands.
This was not for lackofinterest, but for principled reasons that are now apparent in hindsight and are discussed below.
Lackofinterest and debate, not to mention transparency and access to information, is a serious impediment to current relations on environmental and security issues.
The authors report ' a relative lackofinterest and insight into work with this age group ' which they link to negative perceptions of later life.
Such coyness could be explained by a lackofinterest in politics in favour of concentrating on music.
An important observation in this study was that drugs causing somnolence led to lackofinterest in food.
It may be that these issues are not discussed in interpersonal networks, due to fear or lackofinterest.
It is answered in the negative by providing evidence for the lackofinterest of the absolute monarch in experiments.
Many contemporary commentators and surveys confirm the lackofinterest in haymaking.
Only a handful of the replies (n = 97, or 4%) indicated lackofinterest.
Women were also taking advantage of the courts' general lackofinterest in prosecuting them, even when they clearly began riots.
The reasons for non-participation included poor health (13), social reasons (8) and lackofinterest (60).
This lackofinterest is probably due to the fact that fecundity is often regarded as a constant.
For managers a lackofinterest in training and difficulties in working with younger colleagues were associated with the presence of training opportunities.
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