APATHY
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Ap"a*thy (&unr_;), n.; pl. Apathies (&unr_;). [L. apathia, Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, 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.
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A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
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According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
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&hand_; In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
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Syn. -- Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern; stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.
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