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Apathy

Apathy Meaning & Definition
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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