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apathy (iou)



apathy noun. E17.
[French apathie from Latin apathia from Greek apatheia, from apathes without feeling: see A-10, PATHOS, -Y3.]
Insensibility to suffering or emotion; passionless existence; lack of interest or emotion; stolid indifference.
G. H. Lewes Apathy was considered by the Stoics as the highest condition of Humanity. A. Tate A failure resulting from the apathy of responsible classes of society. G. Maxwell Days when a kind of apathy would settle down upon me.
apathist noun a person habitually given to apathy M17.