apathy

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

indifference numbness insensibility sluggishness unconcern neutrality inertia neglect fatigue detachment negligence coma exhaustion paralysis disregard
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

feeling passivity passiveness

Hyponyms

indifference phlegm lassitude languor impassivity listlessness

Phrases with the word

spiritual apathy apathy about apathy towards apathy towards one's homeland sexual apathy

Derivatives

apathies

Examples

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Arnold J. Toynbee

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. Jane Goodall

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Rollo May

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. Conor Cruise O'Brien

They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy. William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

Close letter words and terms

apathized apathogenic apathogenicity apathy about apathy towards apathy towards one's homeland