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