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What is the noun for interest?

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interest
  1. (uncountable, finance) 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. [from earlier 16th c.]
  2. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
  3. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  4. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
  5. (countable) Something one is interested in.
  6. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  7. (plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “I watched the news on television with great interest.”
      “Tourists will be amazed at the many places of interest the region has to offer.”
      “This discussion will only be of interest to those who hold shares in the company.”
interestedness
  1. The state or quality of being interested, or having an interest; selfishness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She could not be sure, but she thought the expression on his face had changed from a natural friendliness to coldness, lack of interestedness, as if he had just remembered that he should not be amiable.”
      “Perhaps we all have a varying aptitude for interestedness and these researchers – as a hand-picked super-interested elite – can coax it out.”
      “The concept of director interestedness comes into play during a potential conflict of interest situation.”
interestingness
  1. The state or quality of being interesting.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Basically I spent some time hanging around someone and that's pretty much it in terms of interestingness.”
      “The flaw, and it is a fatal one, is that Jack has been robbed of more than his innocence, he's been robbed of his interestingness.”
      “He worked hard and he worked cleverly, and as the cities grew in beauty and interestingness he loved them more and more.”
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