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Definition of Apathy
1. Noun. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
Specialized synonyms: Emotionlessness, Impassiveness, Impassivity, Indifference, Phlegm, Stolidity, Unemotionality, Languor, Lassitude, Listlessness
Derivative terms: Apathetic, Apathetic
2. Noun. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.
Generic synonyms: Passiveness, Passivity
Derivative terms: Apathetic, Apathetic, Indifferent, Numb, Spiritless, Spiritless
Definition of Apathy
1. 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.
Definition of Apathy
1. Noun. Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest. ¹
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Definition of Apathy
1. lack of emotion [n -THIES]
Medical Definition of Apathy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apathy
Literary usage of Apathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(6) apathy apathy, or depression of emotional excitability, ... Sometimes the
apathy shows itself in a lack only of the higher feelings (moral, esthetic). ..."
2. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"After thus severely commenting on the past apathy of the citizens, and insisting
upon a change of disposition as indispensable, Demosthenes proceeds to ..."
3. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"MR. and Mrs. Spragg were both given to such long periods of ruminating apathy
that the student of inheritance might have wondered whence Undine derived her ..."
4. English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald (1914)
"There are persons to whom a certain degree of apathy is natural, ... In the apathy
of despair, a person gives up, without resistance or sensibility, ..."
5. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1903)
"l Howe's easy and triumphant advance, and the hardships of Washington's retreat,
were in no small part due to the apathy and indifference of New Jersey. ..."
6. A Students' History of the United States by Edward Channing (1912)
"apathy of the Northerners. — As soon as secession apathy and confederation were
accomplished, the Southerners set to of the work to possess themselves of ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... qualities of this most distinguished of Slavonic nations, were rendered useless
and barren by the apathy and indolence of the great body of the nobles. ..."
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