apathy

English

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, 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.

Antonyms

• empathy
• sympathy
• enthused

Synonyms

• indifference
• neutrality

Related terms

• apatheism noun
• apathetic adj
• apatheia noun

Translations

lack of emotion or motivation

• Afrikaans: apatie
• Albanian: apati (sq)
• Arabic: لَامُبَالَاة‏‎ (lā-mubālāh), عَدَم اِكْتِرَاث‏‎ (ʿadam iktirāṯ), خُمُول‏‎ (ḵumūl)
• Armenian: անտարբերություն (hy) (antarberutʿyun), ապատիա (hy) (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 (ca) 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), apaattisuus (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)
• Hindi: अनुरागहीनता (anurāghīntā)
• Hungarian: apátia (hu)
• Icelandic: áhugaleysi n, sinnuleysi n, tilfinningaleysi (is) 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)
• Latin: apathia, duritia
• Latvian: apātija f
• Maori: ngākaukore, arokore, iwingohe, koroukore
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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)
• Serbo-Croatian: apatija (sh)
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• Slovak: apatia f, ľahostajnosť f, nevšímavosť f
• Spanish: apatía (es) f
• Swedish: apati (sv) c
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• Yiddish: אַפּאַטיע‏‎ f (apatye)