Apathy
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Apathy \Ap"a*thy\, n.; pl. {Apathies}. [L. apathia, Gr. ?; 'a
priv. + ?, fr. ?, ?, to suffer: cf. F. apathie. See
{Pathos}.]
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.
"The apathy of despair." --Macaulay.
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A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which
led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
--Prescott.
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According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of
the passions by the ascendency of reason. --Fleming.
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Note: In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted
the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
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Syn: Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern;
stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "apathy":
Laodiceanism, abeyance, abstraction, abulia, accidia, acedia,
alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state,
ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, callousness,
calmness, carelessness, casualness, catalepsy, catatonia,
catatonic stupor, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, coldness,
comatoseness, compulsion, deadliness, deathliness, dejection,
depression, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency,
detachment, disconsolateness, disinterest, disinterestedness,
dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard, disregardfulness,
dormancy, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, elation,
emotionalism, enervation, ennui, entropy, euphoria, fatigue,
folie du doute, forlornness, halfheartedness, hardness,
heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness,
hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, impassiveness, impassivity,
inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, incuriousness,
indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, indiscrimination,
indolence, inertia, inertness, inexcitability, insensibility,
insensitivity, insouciance, intellectual inertia, jadedness,
lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of interest,
lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor,
languorousness, lassitude, latency, lenitude, lentor,
lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness,
lotus-eating, lukewarmness, mania, melancholia, mental distress,
mindlessness, negligence, no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance,
numbness, obduracy, obsession, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity,
pathological indecisiveness, phlegm, phlegmaticalness,
phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, preoccupation,
psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, recklessness, regardlessness,
resignation, resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth,
slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, sopor,
soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stagnancy,
stagnation, stasis, stoicism, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor,
supineness, suspense, tic, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
torpor, twitching, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern,
uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness,
unresponsiveness, unsolicitousness, vegetation, vis inertiae,
weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness
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