Apathy
['æpəθɪ] or ['æpəθi]
Definition
(noun.) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.
(noun.) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
Typed by Hector--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Checker: Thelma
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Insensibility, impassibility, dispassion, dulness, torpor, coldness, phlegm, indifference, unconcern, unfeelingness, stoicism, want of feeling.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Indifference, insensibility, {unfeelingness_in_company}, insusceptibility,unconcern, sluggishness, hebetude
ANT:Anxiety, care, eagerness, interestedness, sensibility, susceptibility,sensitiveness, irritability, curiosity
Edited by Lizzie
Definition
n. want of feeling: absence of passion: indifference.—adjs. Apathet′ic Apathet′ical (rare).—adv. Apathet′ically.
Checked by Kenneth
Examples
- His heart awoke from its apathy to a warm excitement, and, jumping to his feet, he said aloud, I knew she was sure to come. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I hate my room at Aunt Julia's--so I came here---- She stirred suddenly, broke from her apathy, and clung to Gerty in a fresh burst of fear. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The first of these is the extraordinary apathy of the population to political events. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is not the listless apathy of the Chinese due to a diet of rice? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Being decidedly nettled herself, and longing to see him shake off the apathy that so altered him, Amy sharpened both tongue and pencil, and began. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She sat in a fullness and a pure potency that was like apathy, mindless and immobile. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No space of deaf apathy followed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She sank into a kind of furious apathy, a state of inert anger against fate. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To conquer it men turn generally to their ancient comforter, self-deception: they complain about the stolid, inert masses and the apathy of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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