Noun

Singular apathy

Plural usually uncountable; plural apathies

apathy (usually uncountable; plural apathies)

  1. Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.

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Wed Feb 10 04:19:39 2010

Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest or concern to emotional, social, or physical life. They may also exhibit an insensibility or sluggishness.

Anxiety Arousal Flow Control Relaxation Boredom Apathy Worry Enlarge image Apathy in terms of challenge level and skill level. Clickable.

Often, apathy has been felt after witnessing horrific acts, such as the killing or maiming of people during a war. It is also known to be associated with many conditions, some of which are: depression, Alzheimer's disease, Chagas' disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, dementia, Korsakoff's Syndrome, excessive vitamin D, Hypothyroidism, general fatigue, Huntington's disease, Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), schizophrenia, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, and others. Some medications and the heavy use of drugs such as heroin may bring apathy as a side effect.

In positive psychology, apathy is described as a response to an easy challenge for which the subject has matched skills. The opposite of apathy is flow.

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Sat Feb 27 15:18:14 2010

What would be the effect of disinterest and apathy of a person on other people?
Q. A college-going city girl is disinterested in her studies with a general apathy towards people at home and outside. She lacks confidence, enthusiasm and cheer. What would be the effect of her behavior on her family members, friends and teachers?
Asked by teacher's pet - Sun Oct 14 14:25:23 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. she becomes a walking zombie and gradually drifts further and further away from everyone & everything.her loved ones feel helpless and sad because they're unable to reach out to her.soon she is dwelling in a world filled with strangers and becomes an alien living in a world of her own.
Answered by polly-pocket - Sun Oct 14 14:50:27 2007

Describe the kinds of previous learning experiences the behaviorist would point to explain onlooker apathy?
Q. Describe the kinds of previous learning experiences the behaviorist would point to to explain onlooker apathy at seeing a crime commited and choosing not to get involved?
Asked by shauna m - Wed May 7 05:12:18 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. maybe in the past every time they saw someone get hurt someone else helped that person so they learn through conditioning that they dont need to help cuz somone else will
Answered by Tony - Wed May 7 05:21:12 2008

Did the early start to the election create early apathy for voters?
Q. Did the early start to the election create early apathy for voters?
Asked by Scott K - Wed Jul 30 19:38:28 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Absolutely!
Answered by jwthoughts - Wed Jul 30 19:41:39 2008

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Tue Feb 23 09:36:57 2010

This page is for quotes on the subject of Apathy.

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  • I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
  • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
  • Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is.
    • Victoria Safford in "The Small Work in the Great Work" in The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (2004) by Paul Rogat Loeb
  • Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.
    • Henry Melvill, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 344.
  • There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true— the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.
Tim Brando: Apathy damaging sports locally - Shreveport Times
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Tim Brando: Apathy damaging sports locally

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That my friends is apathy . Whether it's Centenary, LSUS, or the Independence Bowl, we need to do a better job of coveting what we have to improve what we ...



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Apathy For the Devil, By Nick Kent - Independent
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Apathy For the Devil, By Nick Kent

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And the solipsistic metaphor-mixing arrogance of Apathy For the Devil's opening chapters reaches its apogee in the following excuse for a sentence: "It was ...
Security Headaches, Media Apathy for Hockey World Cup - Khaleej Times
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Security Headaches, Media Apathy for Hockey World Cup

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Added to this is the apathy shown by the print and broadcast media especially in south India. Glamour disciplines like cricket and women's tennis seem to ...



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happy for apathy

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not be allowed back in the studio) I may be special guest "Steve Gerdes" (ummm your carsss ready) I had fun putting together the Beatles cover show. Look for part two later this week. Posted by happy for . apathy. at 12:10 PM ...

I don't care about apathy | The Gustavian Weekly
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I don't care about apathy | The Gustavian Weekly

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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:38:22 GM

Apathy. is at once wonderful and annoying. It's this brilliant song of people saying: Whaddja do last weekend? Not much, watched the Olympics and had a couple beers. Absolutely mindless dialogue we still seem to find interesting to ...

Meditations of His Love: Victory Over Sin: Conquering Apathy
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Meditations of His Love: Victory Over Sin: Conquering Apathy

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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:19:00 GM

I don't know if I could say that I've won a victory, yet, over the sin of . apathy. , but I'm working through it and I hope to conquer it. . Apathy. , or 'laziness' . Is something I've been struggling with lately. I have not been 'passionate' ...

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