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indifferency

indifferency noun: impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.

Noun

indifferency (usually uncountable, plural indifferencies)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
    • Doe we thinke he will ever digest us, in the temper wee are in? which (to confesse the truth of the fashionable Christian) what is it but a state of neutrality, indifferency, or such a mediocrity, as will just serve the time, satisfie Law, or stand with reputation of neighbours?1628, Samuel Ward, A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale
  2. (obsolete, usually) A lack of strong feeling; indifference.
    • he was sometimes found in his house, bitterly scolding with his sister, for which being reproved, as he that wronged his indifferencie: What? said he; must this seely woman also serve as a witnesse to my rules?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • I carried it on as far as this with a sort of indifferency that he often wondered at, more than at first, but which was the only support of his courtship; and I mention it the rather to intimate again to the ladies that nothing but want of courage for such an indifferency makes our sex so cheap...1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c.

Forms of indifferency

pluralindifferencies

Origin of indifferency

From Latin indifferentia.

Questions about indifferency

What does indifferency mean?
Indifferency means impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
What part of speech is indifferency?
Indifferency is a noun.
What is the plural of indifferency?
The plural of indifferency is indifferencies.

Words near indifferency in the dictionary

  1. indifference
  2. indifference curve
  3. indifference curves
  4. indifferences
  5. indifferencies
  6. indifferency
  7. indifferent
  8. indifferentiability
  9. indifferentiable
  10. indifferentiate
  11. indifferentiated

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