apathete

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Etymology

From apathy, apathetic, on the pattern of æsthete.

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Noun

apathete (plural apathetes)

  1. An apathetic person; one given to apathy.
    • 1976, Christopher G. A. Bryant, Sociology in Action: A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist, Allen and Unwin, →ISBN, page 145, →ISBN:
      He does not condemn the apathete, indeed he recognises that the alienating character of most industrial and commercial work affects leisure too; []
    • 2007, Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psychogeography, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., →ISBN, page 42, →ISBN:
      I remember that afternoon in SoHo because it was on my first, conscious trip to New York; and even an experienced apathete such as myself – the shirker of the Taj Mahal, the dodger of the Alhambra – was still struck by how inappropriate this seemed.

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