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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apathy
       n 1: an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
       2: the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things
          generally [syn: {indifference}, {spiritlessness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  174 Moby Thesaurus words for "apathy":
     Laodiceanism, abeyance, abstraction, abulia, accidia, acedia,
     alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state,
     ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, callousness,
     calmness, carelessness, casualness, catalepsy, catatonia,
     catatonic stupor, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, coldness,
     comatoseness, compulsion, deadliness, deathliness, dejection,
     depression, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondency,
     detachment, disconsolateness, disinterest, disinterestedness,
     dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard, disregardfulness,
     dormancy, drowsiness, dullness, easygoingness, elation,
     emotionalism, enervation, ennui, entropy, euphoria, fatigue,
     folie du doute, forlornness, halfheartedness, hardness,
     heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness,
     hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, impassiveness, impassivity,
     inanimation, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, incuriousness,
     indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, indiscrimination,
     indolence, inertia, inertness, inexcitability, insensibility,
     insensitivity, insouciance, intellectual inertia, jadedness,
     lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of interest,
     lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor,
     languorousness, lassitude, latency, lenitude, lentor,
     lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, listlessness,
     lotus-eating, lukewarmness, mania, melancholia, mental distress,
     mindlessness, negligence, no exit, no way, no way out, nonchalance,
     numbness, obduracy, obsession, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity,
     pathological indecisiveness, phlegm, phlegmaticalness,
     phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, preoccupation,
     psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, recklessness, regardlessness,
     resignation, resignedness, satedness, sleepiness, sloth,
     slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, sopor,
     soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stagnancy,
     stagnation, stasis, stoicism, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor,
     supineness, suspense, tic, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
     torpor, twitching, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern,
     uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness,
     unresponsiveness, unsolicitousness, vegetation, vis inertiae,
     weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness
  
  

















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