Indifference
[ɪn'dɪf(ə)r(ə)ns] or [ɪn'dɪfrəns]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
(n.) Passableness; mediocrity.
(n.) Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
(n.) Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Neutrality, impartiality, disinterestedness, freedom from bias or prejudice.[2]. Unconcernedness, apathy, coldness, carelessness, negligence, heedlessness, inattention, want of interest.[3]. Triviality, unimportance, insignificance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Triviality, unimportance, insignificance, coolness, carelessness, apathy,insensibility, composure
ANT:Importance, significance, weight, gravity, eagerness, interest, affection,ardor
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of indifference, signifies pleasant companions for a very short time. For a young woman to dream that her sweetheart is indifferent to her, signifies that he may not prove his affections in the most appropriate way. To dream that she is indifferent to him, means that she will prove untrue to him.
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Examples
- With an air of indifference he soon afterwards added: How long did you say he was at Rosings? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Her surprise increased with her indifference: he almost fancied that she suspected him of being tainted with foreignness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There was a complete SANG FROID and indifference under Winifred's childish reserve, a certain irresponsible callousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If they do not operate, the blame is put not on the subject as taught, but on the indifference and recalcitrancy of pupils. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Such liberality argued in the father's eyes profound indifference--who tolerates all, he reasonedcan be attached to none. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And not another word was said; but Fanny felt herself again in danger, and her indifference to the danger was beginning to fail her already. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But I could not act with this business-like indifference towards Miss Fairlie. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These he utters with an appearance of perfect indifference as he looks over the papers on his table and prepares to write a letter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Those letters would have done more to convince me of your perfect indifference, than even your silence and neglect. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Never did tone express indifference plainer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That is a matter of perfect indifference to His Grace and also to me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I forgot to look for him when I was last out,' returned Eugene with the calmest indifference; 'but I dare say he was there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Despite that pernicious assumption of lassitude and indifference, which had become his second nature, he was strongly attached to his friend. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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