apathy

§English

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§Etymology

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”).

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.pə.θi/

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§Noun

apathy (usually uncountable, plural apathies)

1. Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 2, Frankenstein^[1]:

     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.

§Related terms

• apatheism noun
• apathetic adj
• apatheia noun

§Translations

lack of emotion or motivation

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• Armenian: անտարբերություն (antarberutʿyun), ապատիա (apatia)
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• Basque: apatia (eu)
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• Bulgarian: апа́тия (bg) f (apátija), нечувстви́телност (bg) f (nečuvstvítelnost), равноду́шие (bg) n (ravnodúšie)
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• Catalan: apatia f
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  Mandarin: 冷漠 (zh) (lěngmò)

• Czech: apatie (cs) f
• Danish: apati c
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• Dutch: apathie (nl) f
• Esperanto: apatio
• Estonian: ükskõiksus, apaatia
• Faroese: dølskni f, n, kensluloysi n, líkasæla f
• Finnish: apatia (fi), välinpitämättömyys (fi)
• French: apathie (fr) f
• Galician: apatía f
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• German: Apathie (de) f

• Greek: απάθεια (el) f (apátheia)
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• Hebrew: אדישות (he) (adishut), אָפַּתְיָה f (apatia)
• Hungarian: apátia (hu)
• Icelandic: áhugaleysi n
• Ido: apatio (io)
• Japanese: 無感動 (むかんどう, mukandō), 無関心 (ja) (むかんしん, mukanshin)
• Khmer: ភាពកន្តើយ (pʰiep kɑntaəy)
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• Latvian: apātija f
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• Polish: apatia (pl) f
• Portuguese: apatia (pt) f
• Romanian: apatie (ro) f
• Russian: апа́тия (ru) f (apátija), безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije), равноду́шие (ru) n (ravnodúšije)
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• Slovak: apatia f, ľahostajnosť f, nevšímavosť f
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• Swedish: apati (sv) c
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