apathy
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
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
- antonymconcern
- antonymenthusiasm
- antonymexcitement
- antonyminterest
- antonympassion
- antonymvigour
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.
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.
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