apathy

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.pə.θi/

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apathy (usually uncountable, plural apathies)

1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in Frankenstein‎:

     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.

• indifference
• neutrality

• empathy
• sympathy

• apatheism (noun)
• apathetic (adjective)
• apatheia (noun)

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