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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
apathy
    n 1: an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
    2: the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things
       generally [syn: apathy, indifference, numbness,
       spiritlessness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Apathy \Ap"a*thy\, n.; pl. Apathies. [L. apathia, Gr. ?; 'a
   priv. + ?, fr. ?, ?, to suffer: cf. F. apathie. See
   Pathos.]
   Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or
   excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the
   mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or
   state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused
   to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
   "The apathy of despair." --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]

         A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which
         led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
                                                  --Prescott.
   [1913 Webster]

         According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of
         the passions by the ascendency of reason. --Fleming.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted
         the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
         [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern;
        stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Apathy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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