apathy

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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, 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

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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• Chinese:

  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
• 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
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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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