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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Laodiceanism, abandon, abeyance, absentmindedness, abstraction, abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, callousness, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatonic stupor, coldness, comatoseness, compulsion, coolness, cursoriness, deadliness, deathliness, dejection, depression, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dormancy, drowsiness, dullness, easiness, easygoingness, elation, emotionalism, enervation, ennui, entropy, equitability, equitableness, euphoria, evenhandedness, fairishness, fairness, fatigue, flightiness, flippancy, folie du doute, forgetfulness, frivolousness, giddiness, hastiness, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, immateriality, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, impotence, imprecision, inadvertence, inadvertency, inanimation, inappetence, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incuriosity, incuriousness, indevotion, indevoutness, indifferentism, indifferentness, indolence, ineffectuality, inertia, inertness, inferiority, inobservance, insensibility, insignificance, insouciance, intellectual inertia, irrelevance, jadedness, lack of appetite, lack of foresight, lack of interest, lackadaisicalness, lackluster, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, latency, laxity, laxness, laziness, leniency, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, levity, lifelessness, lightmindedness, listlessness, littleness, looseness, loosening, lotus-eating, low priority, lukewarm piety, mania, marginality, mediocreness, mediocrity, melancholia, mental distress, middlingness, moderateness, modestness, modesty, negligence, negligibility, neutrality, nonchalance, nonobservance, nonreligiousness, numbness, objectivity, oblivion, obliviousness, obsession, offhandedness, oscitancy, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, passableness, passiveness, passivity, pathological indecisiveness, perfunctoriness, permissiveness, pettiness, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, picayune, picayunishness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pokiness, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, puniness, recklessness, regardlessness, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, resignation, resignedness, respectability, satedness, secondariness, shallowness, slackness, sleepiness, slightness, sloppiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, smallness, softness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, sprezzatura, spunklessness, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, superficiality, supineness, suspense, tactlessness, tediousness, thoughtlessness, tic, tolerableness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, triviality, twitching, unalertness, unawareness, unbiasedness, unconcern, unconsciousness, undevoutness, undutifulness, unheedfulness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, uninquisitiveness, unintentiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unnoteworthiness, unobservance, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unreligiousness, unresponsiveness, unrestraint, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unthinkingness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, vegetation, vis inertiae, weakness, weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness

Dictionary Results for indifference:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

indifference
    n 1: unbiased impartial unconcern
    2: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
       [syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness,
       phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality]
    3: the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things
       generally [syn: apathy, indifference, numbness,
       spiritlessness]
    4: the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual
       lack of concern [syn: nonchalance, unconcern,
       indifference]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Indifference \In*dif"fer*ence\, n. [L. indifferentia similarity,
   lack of difference: cf. F. indiff['e]rence.]
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   1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a
      difference; lack of sufficient importance to constitute a
      difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
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   2. Passableness; mediocrity.
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   3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or
      bias.
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            He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as
            ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign.
                                                  --Sir T. More.
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   4. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is
      presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire
      indifference to all that occurs.
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            Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is
            conversant about objects which are so far from being
            of an indifferent nature, that they are highest
            importance.                           --Addison.

   Syn: Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy;
        insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness.
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