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Apathy
| Apathy Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Apathy?
[n] the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
[n] an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
Synonyms | Synonyms for Apathy: indifference |
spiritlessness
Related Terms | Find terms related to Apathy: abeyance |
abstraction |
abulia |
accidia |
acedia |
alienation |
aloofness |
anxiety |
anxiety equivalent |
anxiety state |
ataraxia |
ataraxy |
benumbedness |
blah |
blahs |
boredom |
callousness |
calmness |
carelessness |
casualness |
catalepsy |
catatonia |
catatonic stupor |
cave of despair |
cave of Trophonius |
coldness |
comatoseness |
compulsion |
deadliness |
deathliness |
dejection |
depression |
despair |
desperateness |
desperation |
despondency |
detachment |
disconsolateness |
disinterest |
disinterestedness |
dispassion |
dispassionateness |
disregard |
disregardfulness |
dormancy |
drowsiness |
dullness |
easygoingness |
elation |
emotionalism |
enervation |
ennui |
entropy |
euphoria |
fatigue |
folie du doute |
forlornness |
halfheartedness |
hardness |
heartlessness |
heaviness |
hebetude |
heedlessness |
hopelessness |
hypochondria |
hysteria |
hysterics |
impassiveness |
impassivity |
inanimation |
inappetence |
inattention |
incuriosity |
incuriousness |
indifference |
indifferentism |
indifferentness |
indiscrimination |
indolence |
inertia |
inertness |
inexcitability |
insensibility |
insensitivity |
insouciance |
intellectual inertia |
jadedness |
lack of affect |
lack of appetite |
lack of interest |
lackadaisicalness |
languidness |
languishment |
languor |
languorousness |
Laodiceanism |
lassitude |
latency |
lenitude |
lentor |
lethargicalness |
lethargy |
lifelessness |
listlessness |
lotus-eating |
lukewarmness |
mania |
melancholia |
mental distress |
mindlessness |
negligence |
no exit |
no way |
no way out |
nonchalance |
numbness |
obduracy |
obsession |
oscitancy |
passiveness |
passivity |
pathological indecisiveness |
phlegm |
phlegmaticalness |
phlegmaticness |
plucklessness |
pococurantism |
preoccupation |
psychalgia |
psychomotor disturbance |
recklessness |
regardlessness |
resignation |
resignedness |
satedness |
sleepiness |
sloth |
slothfulness |
slowness |
sluggishness |
somnolence |
sopor |
soporifousness |
spiritlessness |
spunklessness |
stagnancy |
stagnation |
stasis |
stoicism |
stolidity |
stupefaction |
stupor |
supineness |
suspense |
tic |
torpidity |
torpidness |
torpitude |
torpor |
twitching |
unanxiousness |
unawareness |
unconcern |
uninquisitiveness |
uninterestedness |
unmindfulness |
unresponsiveness |
unsolicitousness |
vegetation |
vis inertiae |
weariness |
withdrawal |
withdrawnness |
world-weariness
See Also | emotionlessness |
feeling |
impassiveness |
impassivity |
indifference |
languor |
lassitude |
listlessness |
passiveness |
passivity |
phlegm |
stolidity |
unemotionality
Apathy In Webster's Dictionary
\Ap"a*thy\, n.; pl. {Apathies}. [L. apathia, Gr. ?; 'a
priv. + ?, fr. ?, ?, to suffer: cf. F. apathie. See
{Pathos}.]
Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or
excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the
mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or
state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused
to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
``The apathy of despair.'' --Macaulay.
A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which
led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
--Prescott.
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of
the passions by the ascendency of reason. --Fleming.
Note: In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted
the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
Syn: Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern;
stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.
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