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

It’d make clearer the cost of voter apathy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Besides large class sizes and underfunding, I think public educators are largely battling apathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

With no traditions of organized political activity behind them and nobody to look to for help since the New Deal, they live in apathy and despair.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

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

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.

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 by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin