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)
• Belarusian: абыя́касць f (abyjákascʹ), абыя́кавасць f (abyjákavascʹ), раўнаду́шнасць f (raŭnadúšnascʹ), раўнаду́шша n (raŭnadúšša)
• Bulgarian: безразли́чие (bg) n (bezrazlíčie), равноду́шие (bg) n (ravnodúšie)
• Catalan: indiferència (ca) 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)
• Macedonian: рамнодушност f (ramnodušnost)

• Maori: arokore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likegyldig (no) m

• Polish: obojętność (pl)
• Portuguese: indiferença (pt) f
• Romanian: indiferență (ro) f
• Russian: безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije), равноду́шие (ru) n (ravnodúšije)
• Sanskrit: उदास (sa) m (udāsa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: равно̀душно̄ст f

  Roman: ravnòdušnōst (sh) f

• Slovak: ľahostajnosť f
• Slovene: ravnodušnost f
• Spanish: indiferencia (es) f
• Swedish: likgiltighet (sv)
• Tagalog: kalatubaan
• Turkish: ilgisizlik (tr), kayıtsızlık (tr), umursamazlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: байду́жість (uk) f (bajdúžistʹ), байду́жність (uk) f (bajdúžnistʹ), рівноду́шшя n (rivnodúššja)

Unbiased impartiality

• Bulgarian: безпристрастност f (bezpristrastnost)

• Hungarian: elfogulatlanság (hu)

Unconcerned nonchalance

• Bulgarian: равноду́шие (bg) n (ravnodúšie)

• Hungarian: közöny (hu)