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apathy
/ ˈæpəθɪ /
noun
- absence of interest in or enthusiasm for things generally considered interesting or moving
- absence of emotion
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of apathy1
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Example Sentences
The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy.
The result is safe seats that lead to apathy and voter impotence, leading logically to ever-declining voter turnout.
And one arena in which to stage that confrontation—with madness, apathy, family dysfunction, poverty, etc.—is the theater.
Two basic characteristics not related to memory are apathy and indifference or callousness.
Silence and apathy are key ingredients to a tasty helping of bigotry.
I've been in a sort of mental apathy since I got back—the result, I suppose, of so much artistic excitement all summer.
The narrative had excited him out of his apathy and physical exhaustion, the confession shaken the rigidity from his mind.
He studied Madame Roland with even more of stoical apathy than another man would study a book which he admires.
The school-children, owing to a more liberal educational system, had lost the customary look of apathy.
From the fatal slumber of religious apathy into which the church was falling it was to be rudely awakened.
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