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Etymology [ edit ] From French apathie Latin apathīa Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια apatheia , “ impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion ” ), from ἀπαθής apathēs , “ not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of ” ), from ἀ- a- , “ not ” ) + πάθος pathos , “ anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion ” ).
Pronunciation [ edit ] apathy (usually uncountable , plural apathies
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 [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
lack of emotion or motivation
Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: անտարբերություն antarberutʿyun ), ապատիա apatia )
Asturian: please add this translation if you can Azeri: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: please add this translation if you can Basque: apatia (eu)
Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: апатия (bg) f apátija ), нечувствителност (bg) f nečuvstvítelnost ), равнодушие (bg) n ravnodúšije )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: apatia 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 , n kensluloysi n líkasæla f
Finnish: apatia (fi) , välinpitämättömyys (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 )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can 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 )
Latin: please add this translation if you can Latvian: apātija f
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Novial: please add this translation if you can Occitan: please add this translation if you can Oriya: please add this translation if you can Polish: apatia (pl) f
Portuguese: apatia (pt) f
Romanian: apatie (ro) f
Russian: апатия (ru) f apátija ), безразличие (ru) n bezrazlíčije ), равнодушие (ru) n ravnodúšije )
Serbo-Croatian: apatija
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Slovak: apatia f ľahostajnosť f nevšímavosť f
Spanish: apatía (es) f
Swedish: apati (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can Welsh: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
