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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, impassivity, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, stoicism, stolidity, stolidness, unconcern, uninterest, unresponsiveness |
| Main Entry: | stolidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, impassivity, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, stoicism, stolidity, unconcern, uninterest, unresponsiveness |
| Main Entry: | taciturnity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reserve |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, backwardness, calmness, caution, coldness, constraint, control, coyness, demureness, diffidence, formality, inhibition, modesty, quietness, reluctance, repression, reservation, restraint, reticence, secretiveness, self-control, self-restraint, shyness, silence, suppression, uncommunicativeness, unresponsiveness |
| Main Entry: | uncommunicativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reserve |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, backwardness, calmness, caution, coldness, constraint, control, coyness, demureness, diffidence, formality, inhibition, modesty, quietness, reluctance, repression, reservation, restraint, reticence, secretiveness, self-control, self-restraint, shyness, silence, suppression, taciturnity, unresponsiveness |
| Main Entry: | uninterest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, impassivity, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, stoicism, stolidity, stolidness, unconcern, unresponsiveness |
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| Main Entry: | apathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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all one to, anesthetic, apathetic, blind to, callous, careless, case, cold, cold, cold as charity, comatose, cool, cool as a cucumber, crustose, dead, dead to, deaf to, dedolent, devil, disinterested, disregarding, dull, easy, frigid, half, hardened, heartless, impartial, impassible, impassive, impenitible, impercipient, imperturbable, impervious, inattentive, indifferent, inert, infrunite, insensate, insensible, insipid, insouciant, insusceptible, inured, lackadaisical, languid, leucophlematic, listless, lukewarm, maudlin, mindless, neglectful, numb, obtuse, pachydermatous, palsied, palsy, passionless, phlegmatic, pococurante, proof, proof against, regardless, senseless, sleepy, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, steeled against, stupefied, stuporific, supine, tame, thick, unaffected, unalluring, unambitious, unanimated, unaspiring, unattracted, unblushing, uncared for, unconcerned, unconscious, undesirable, undesired, undesiring, unexcited, unfeeling, unfelt, unimpressed, unimpressible, unimpressionable, uninspired, unmoved, unruffled, unshocked, unsolicitous, unstirred, unstruck, unsusceptible, untouched, unvalued, unwished, vain, vegetative
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| Main Entry: | inertia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | [Absence of curiosity] Incuriosity. |
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incuriosity, incuriousness; insouciance; indifference.
-verbs
be incurious; have no curiosity; take no interest in; mind one's own business.
-adjectives
incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive; uninterested.
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| Antonyms: | curiosity |
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| Concept: | Taciturnity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; spoken language |
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silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity, pauciloquy, costiveness, curtness; reserve, reticence (concealment)., man of few words.
-verbs
be silent; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak. [more]; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute., stick in one's throat.
-adjectives
silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as the grave (still) [more]; dumb; unconversable., taciturn, sparing of words; close-tongued; costive, inconversable, curt; reserved; reticent (concealing).
-phrases
cave quid dicis quando et cui; volto sciollo i pensieri stretti.
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