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

Instead, he encountered an apathy that stunned him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

It’d make clearer the cost of voter apathy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

I projected apathy about her feelings, but I wanted nothing more than to make her proud.

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

She learned more of Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as discouraging as her apathies.

From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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

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

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 Charles Lamb