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Apathy
//ˈæ.pə.θi// noun
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Noun
- 1 Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something). uncountable, usually
"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."
- 2 the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally wordnet
- 3 an absence of emotion or enthusiasm wordnet
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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