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apathy

[ap-uh-thee] / ˈæp ə θi /


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Yet those who work around him say that shouldn’t be confused with apathy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Reports cite a range of complicated factors for the restraint, from apathy to technology-induced incapacity.

From Salon May 28, 2026

If the passion wanes, apathy can set in.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

While the protest movement has largely been driven by younger supporters, there are signs of apathy among older match-going fans.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

Fear and apathy had become the new norm in what had once been a close-knit community.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the commonest manifestations of insanity are excitements and depressions, apathies and manias, hallucinations, delusions and obsessions, all of which are reproducible under known conditions of internal secretion excess or failure.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

And yet again they seem to use words rightly when they call those joys and wishes and cautions not apathies but good conditions of the mind.

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices—made up of likings and dislikings—the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew




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