apātija

Via some other European language, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”).

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apātija f (4th declension)

1. apathy (mental condition characterized by lack of will, activity, interest; indifference)

   apātijas stāvoklis ― state of apathy

   apātijas pārņēmts cilvēks ― a person taken by apathy

   viņas skatiens pauda nogurumu un apātiju ― her look expressed fatigue and apathy

   Vītols juta, ka sirdi kā drēgnums apskauj drūma apātija; negribējās neko izdomāt līdz galam ― Vītols felt that bleak apathy embraced (his) heart like cold weather; he didn't feel like figuring out anything

   es iegrimu apātijā; jo vairāk atplauka daba un vasarīgāks kļuva gaiss, jo melnāka man šķita nākotne ― I fell into apathy; the more nature blossomed, the more it became summer, the blacker the future seemed to me

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