apathy

noun
/ˈæ.pə.θi/

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.

  1. derived from ἀπάθεια — “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion
  2. derived from apathīa
  3. derived from apathie

Definitions

  1. Lack of emotion or motivation

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at apathy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at apathy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at apathy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA