indifference, disinterest
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Apathy Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutWant 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.
apathy
\ap"a*thy\ (&?;), n.; pl. apathies (&?;). [l. apathia, gr. &?;; 'a priv. + &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, to suffer: cf. f. apathie. see pathos.] 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. "the apathy of despair." a certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him to leave events to take their own course. according to the stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
note: in the first ages of the church, the christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
Noun
1. an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
(hypernym) feeling
(hyponym) emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality
2. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
(synonym) indifference, spiritlessness
(hypernym) passivity, passiveness
Apathy Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical and/or physical life.
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Apáthy may refer to:
- Stephan Apáthy (1863–1922), Hungarian zoologist and histologist
- Jeno Apáthy, Hungarian fencer
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