English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle French indifférence (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Late Latin indifferentia
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/ , /ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹəns/ Hyphenation: in‧dif‧fer‧ence
Noun
indifference (countable and uncountable plural indifferences
The state of being indifferent .
Unbiased impartiality .Unemotional apathy .
His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human. A lack of enthusiasm .
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) ( antarberutʻyun )
Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: безразличие (bg) n ( bezrazličie )
Catalan: indiferència (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不關心 ／ 不关心 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)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}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 )
Sanskrit: उदास (sa) m ( udāsa )
Serbo-Croatian: ravnodušnost (sh) f равнодушност f
Spanish: indiferencia (es) f
Swedish: likgiltighet (sv)
Tagalog: kalatubaan
Turkish: ilgisizlik (tr) , kayıtsızlık (tr) , umursamazlık (tr)