apathy

In “Kitchen Confidential,” Bourdain describes his decision to head to Provincetown as an impulse motivated less by romantic desire than by general apathy.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The musician has been receiving medication and treatment; but says the condition also comes with episodes of anxiety, depression, and apathy.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Maybe what “Network” nails most of all is apathy: that even the most righteously committed can have their heads turned from their true goals and then struggle to get back on track.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Investor apathy toward China stems from weak consumer spending and bank loan growth, and increased US-China trade restrictions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

The seconds ticked by; the game progressed with apathy now.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought.

From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 Louis Berman 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 Arthur Richard Shilleto

What the great Luther called, without describing them, his 'tribulations'—those dreadful doubts and apathies which at times menace and darken the radiant fabric of faith, and fill the soul with nameless horrors.

From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu