English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From French apathie Latin apathīa 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 [ edit ] apathy (usually uncountable , plural apathies
Lack of emotion or motivation ; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
1818 , Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in 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.
Synonyms: indifference neutrality Antonyms: empathy sympathy Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
lack of emotion or motivation
Afrikaans: apatie
Albanian: apati (sq) f
Arabic: لَامُبَالَاة ( lā-mubālāh ) , عَدَم اِكْتِرَاث ( ʿadam iktirāṯ ) , خُمُول ( ḵumūl )
Armenian: անտարբերություն (hy) ( antarberutʿyun ) , ապատիա (hy) ( apatia )
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Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: apatia (eu)
Belarusian: апа́тыя f ( apátyja ) , абыя́кавасць f ( abyjákavascʹ ) , абыя́касць f ( abyjákascʹ ) , раўнаду́шнасць f ( raŭnadúšnascʹ )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
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Bulgarian: апа́тия (bg) f ( apátija ) , нечувстви́телност (bg) f ( nečuvstvítelnost ) , равноду́шие (bg) n ( ravnodúšie )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: apatia (ca) f
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冷漠 (zh) ( lěngmò )
Czech: apatie (cs) f
Danish: apati c
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: apathie (nl) f
Esperanto: apatio
Estonian: ükskõiksus apaatia
Faroese: dølskni f or n kensluloysi n líkasæla f
Finnish: apatia (fi) , välinpitämättömyys (fi) , apaattisuus (fi)
French: apathie (fr) f
Galician: apatía f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Apathie (de) f
Greek: απάθεια (el) f ( apátheia )
Ancient: ἀκηδία f ( akēdía )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: אדישות (he) f ( adishut ) , אָפַּתְיָה f ( apatia )
Hindi: अनुरागहीनता ? ( anurāghīntā )
Hungarian: apátia (hu) , közöny (hu) , közönyösség (hu) , fásultság (hu) , érdektelenség (hu)
Icelandic: áhugaleysi n sinnuleysi n tilfinningaleysi (is) n
Ido: apatio (io)
Interlingue: apatie
Irish: fuarchúis f patuaire f dímhothú m fuacht m fuarthé m támh f
Japanese: 無感動 ( むかんどう, mukandō ) , 無関心 (ja) ( むかんしん, mukanshin )
Khmer: ភាពកន្តើយ ( pʰiep kɑntaəy )
Korean: 무감동 ( mugamdong ) , 무관심 (ko) ( mugwansim ) , 냉담 (ko) ( naengdam )
Latin: apathīa f dūritia f
Latvian: apātija f
Macedonian: апатија f ( apatija )
Manx: neuyeeanid m feayr-chooishaght f
Maori: ngākaukore arokore iwingohe koroukore
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Polish: apatia (pl) f
Portuguese: apatia (pt) f desânimo (pt) m
Romanian: apatie (ro) f
Russian: апа́тия (ru) f ( apátija ) , безразли́чие (ru) n ( bezrazlíčije ) , равноду́шие (ru) n ( ravnodúšije )
Sanskrit: उदास (sa) m ( udāsa )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: апа̀тија f
Roman: apàtija (sh) f
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Slovak: apatia f ľahostajnosť f nevšímavosť f
Slovene: apatija f
Spanish: apatía (es) f
Swedish: apati (sv) c
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Ukrainian: апа́тія (uk) f ( apátija ) , байду́жість (uk) f ( bajdúžistʹ ) , байду́жність (uk) f ( bajdúžnistʹ )
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: difaterwch m difrawder m
Yiddish: אַפּאַטיע f ( apatye )
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