apathy
/ˈæ.pə.θi/
apathy noun: lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
Noun
apathy (usually uncountable, plural apathies)
- Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
- I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2012
- Synonyms:
- indifference, neutrality, unconcern, acedia, accedie, boredom, carefreeness, carelessness, coolness, disinterest
apathy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
apathy in Hindi
- lack of emotion or motivation
- अनुरागहीनता anurāghīntā, उदासीनता udāsīntā, उपेक्षा upekṣā, संवेदनहीनता samvednahīntā
apathy in Tamil
- lack of emotion or motivation
- அக்கறையின்மை akkaṟaiyiṉmai
apathy in Urdu
- بےحسی, بےپروائی
apathy in Bengali
- অনুভূতি, আগ্রহের অভাব
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- apathy in Telugu
- ఉదాసీనత udāsīnata
- apathy in Malayalam
- നിർവ്വികാരത, ഉദാസീനത, താത്പര്യമില്ലായ്മ
- apathy in Kannada
- ಉದಾಸೀನತೆ, ನಿರಾಸಕ್ತಿ, ನಿರುತ್ಸಾಹ, ಉದ್ವೇಗರಾಹಿತ್ಯ
- apathy in Sanskrit
- उदास udāsa
- apathy in Arabic
- لَامُبَالَاة lā-mubālāh, عَدَم اِكْتِرَاث ʕadam iktirāṯ, خُمُول ḵumūl
Examples of apathy in a sentence
- The other two most frequent neurobehavioral changes besides “incontinence”, i.e., logopenia and apathy, are negative symptoms.
- He’d rather look eternally cheerful than express nothing but apathy for the rest of his life.
- We’re a busy city, and this may be part of the reason for the apathy.
Synonyms of apathy
- indifference
- neutrality
- unconcern
- acedia
- accedie
- boredom
- carefreeness
- carelessness
- coolness
- disinterest
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Antonyms
Forms of apathy
| plural | apathies |
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Origin of apathy
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.
Words formed from apathy
Questions about apathy
- What does apathy mean?
- Apathy means lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
- What is apathy in Hindi?
- Apathy in Hindi is अनुरागहीनता (anurāghīntā), उदासीनता (udāsīntā), उपेक्षा (upekṣā). See Apathy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is apathy?
- Apathy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce apathy?
- Apathy is pronounced /ˈæ.pə.θi/.
- What is the plural of apathy?
- The plural of apathy is apathies.
Words near apathy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: apathy (page history and authors); apathy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Apathy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apathy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apathy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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