interest

Meaning

1. The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
2. Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
3. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
4. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
5. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
6. Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
7. Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
8. (obsolete) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
9. The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
10. a genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label

concernment

matter to

interestingness

avocation

associate with

mingle with

inquisitiveness

rate of interest

yield

become interested

be mixed

profit and loss

advantages and disadvantages

be blended with

paying attention to

affectionate solicitude

gain and loss

zeal for something

desire to know

musical passage

involvment

hypothetical cost

hostryinge

curiousity

being attentive

captivate

commision

Frequency

Hyphenated as

in‧ter‧est

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪntəɹɪst/

From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

Cognate with French

intérêt

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