Unempathetic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking empathy.

    "But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact."

Example

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"Sometimes humans don't recognize that they are naturally unempathetic."

Etymology

From un- + empathetic.

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