apathy

Meaning

Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

Synonyms

indifference

disinterest

unconcern

lack of interest

nonchalance

negligence

accidie

sluggishness

impassivity

spiritlessness

lethargy

listlessness

torpor

aversion

stupor

inactivity

stolidness

apathia

neglect

sloth

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impassiveness

depression

coldness

sadness

inertia

acedia

numbness

disregard

phlegm

inertness

insensibility

insensitivity

insouciance

lifelessness

melancholia

melancholy

misery

neutrality

noninterference

nonintervention

phlegmatic

sale

sorrow

stolidity

stupidity

subtraction

torpidity

weakness

weariness

emotionlessness

abepithymia

fatigue

frigidity

grief

langour

apathy towards

whateverism

unconcerne

adverseness

alarm

aplomb

boredom

carelessness

consternation

coolness

deduction

dejection

demand

detachment

disgust

disinclination

disinterestedness

dismay

dispassion

dormancy

drowsiness

dullness

dulness

exhaustion

gloom

hostility

immobility

impassibility

inattentiveness

indifferent

indolence

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæ.pə.θi/

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”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.