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Meanings of apathy in English
The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.
State of indifference or the suppression of emotions; lack of interest or enthusiasm.
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Examples for "indifference"
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At a regional and national level, however, there has been political indifference.
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Tsunamis carried away cities, land reclamation projects, and workers with equal indifference.
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At best they can win a level of indifference about the government.
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Might my apparent indifference have cost Tom his only chance for work?
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The men utter similar salutations; and Sekeletu receives all with becoming indifference.
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Ten minutes later Barbara felt a cold numbness spreading through her body.
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The first inspiration produced numbness and loss of feeling in the chest.
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He sallied out after breakfast-thesame numbness; but he walked it off.
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He spoke with neither courage nor despair but a kind of numbness.
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The twilight and stillness of the drawing-room seemed to increase his numbness.
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There was a spiritlessness in this man that surprised me.
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But even the soda water, as if adjusting itself to the spiritlessness of the prisoners, refused to effervesce.
Education and Social Development Synopsis from the Films Division of India: A film made humorously to show the common man's apathy in his day to day behaviour.
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Usage of apathy in English
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The stability of the current government is guaranteed only by public apathy.
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With a general election weeks away, figures suggest voter apathy remains unchanged.
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In a stable & prosperious society, political apathy is to be expected.
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However, apathy may also arise, especially when dopaminergic medication tapering is rapid.
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Recent studies have shown that apathy is closely linked to functional outcome.
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These incidents were in contrast to his normal apathy and inactivity, however.
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Conclusions: Prefrontal and temporal regions are differentially associated with apathy and disinhibition.
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Their ideas are incidents in their perpetual oscillation between apathy and passion.
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That level of apathy goes for the New York duo's music, too.
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Also it seems impossible to measure the impact of disgust & apathy.
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Stella was put to bed; for days she lay in deep apathy.
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Kenkenes did not remain long in the apathy of amazement and helplessness.
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But she saw apathy as the biggest threat to the yes campaign.
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The buildings themselves are evidence of the apathy reigning among the Shirázis.
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The discontent among the Irish at the apathy of France was extreme.
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This, ultimately, is what Sampson came to symbolize: supremacy coated in apathy.
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Apathy through the time
Apathy across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common