indifference

See also: indifférence

English

Etymology

From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/, /ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹəns/

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• Hyphenation: in‧dif‧fer‧ence

Noun

indifference (countable and uncountable, plural indifferences)

1. The state of being indifferent.
2. Unbiased impartiality.
3. Unemotional apathy.
   • His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human.
4. A lack of enthusiasm.
5. Unconcerned nonchalance.
   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity^[1]:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

Translations

the state of being indifferent

• Armenian: անտարբերություն (hy) (antarberutʿyun)
• Catalan: indiferència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不關心, 不关心 (bùguānxīn), 冷淡 (zh) (lěngdàn)

• Czech: lhostejnost f
• Dutch: onverschilligheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: indiferento, malzorgo, neglekto
• Finnish: välinpitämättömyys (fi), penseys (fi)
• French: indifférence (fr) f
• Galician: indiferenza f
• German: Gleichgültigkeit (de) f
• Greek: αδιαφορία (el) f (adiaforía)
• Hebrew: אֲדִישׁוּת‏‎ (he) f (adishot)
• Hungarian: közöny (hu)

• Ido: indiferenteso (io)
• Japanese: 無関心 (ja) (むかんしん, mukanshin), 冷淡さ (ja) (れいたんさ, reitan-sa)
• Maori: arokore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likegyldig m

• Polish: obojętność (pl)
• Portuguese: indiferença (pt) f
• Romanian: indiferență (ro) f
• Russian: безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije), равноду́шие (ru) n (ravnodúšije)
• Serbo-Croatian: ravnodušnost (sh) f, равнодушност f
• Spanish: indiferencia (es) f
• Swedish: likgiltighet (sv)
• Tagalog: kalatubaan
• Turkish: ilgisizlik (tr), kayıtsızlık (tr), umursamazlık (tr)