apathy

Meaning

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

Opposite of

concern, sympathy, interest, care

Synonyms

indifference

disinterest

unconcern

lack of interest

nonchalance

negligence

accidie

sluggishness

impassivity

spiritlessness

lethargy

listlessness

torpor

aversion

stupor

inactivity

stolidness

apathia

neglect

sloth

🦥

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

Translations

apathie

apatía

apatia

Apathie

apatia

apathie

apatia

απάθεια

Teilnahmslosigkeit

indifferenza

indifférence

indiferença

lusteloosheid

indiferencia

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.