apathy
pronunciation
How to pronounce apathy in British English:
UK [ˈæpəθi]
How to pronounce apathy in American English:
US [ˈæpəθi]
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- Noun:
- an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
Word Origin
- apathy (n.)
- c. 1600, "freedom from suffering," from French apathie (16c.), from Latin apathia, from Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability, want of sensation," from apathes "without feeling, without suffering or having suffered," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see pathos). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c. 1733.
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Example
- 1. So , his example does not encourage laziness or apathy .
- 2. Some causes of voter apathy cannot be fixed .
- 3. Enlargement fatigue has a mirror image : apathy and resentment .
- 4. Years of political mudslinging between the big parties have brought disillusionment and apathy .
- 5. Standing between the two is an administrative machine corroded by apathy and corruption .