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Wikipedia has an article on: ApathyEtymology
From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apatheia), “‘impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion’”), from ἀπαθής (apathēs), “‘not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of’”), from ἀπαθέω (apatheō), “‘to be free from suffering’”), from ἀ- (a-), “‘not’”) + πάθος (pathos), “‘anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion’”).
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Singular apathy |
Plural usually uncountable; plural apathies |
apathy (usually uncountable; plural apathies)
- Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
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