apathy

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Etymology

From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, 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”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæ.pə.θi/
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Noun

apathy (usually uncountable, plural apathies)

  1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
    Synonyms: indifference, neutrality, unconcern
    Antonyms: concern, sympathy, interest, care
    • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in Frankenstein‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2012:
      I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.

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