apathy
Plural: apathies
Noun
- A lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
- an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
- Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
Examples
- His opponent’s apathy was clear when he played ’AT’ for the third time.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
indifference, numbness, spiritlessness, accedie, acedia, apathy, boredom, carefreeness, carelessness, coolness, disinterest, disregard, doldrums, ennui, heedlessness, insouciance, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, malaise, melancholia, melancholy, neutrality, unconcern, unease, weltschmerz
Antonyms
care, concern, enthusiasm, excitement, interest, passion, sympathy, vigour
Scrabble Score: 14
apathy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordapathy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
apathy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary