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incuriosity
noun as in apathy
Weak matches
- aloofness
- coldness
- coolness
- detachment
- disinterest
- dispassion
- disregard
- dullness
- emotionlessness
- halfheartedness
- heedlessness
- impassivity
- incuriousness
- indifference
- insensibility
- insensibleness
- insensitivity
- insouciance
- lassitude
- lethargy
- listlessness
- passiveness
- passivity
- phlegm
- stoicism
- stolidity
- stolidness
- unconcern
- uninterest
- unresponsiveness
Example Sentences
It involves multiple vehicles, several outfit changes, and most importantly, suspension of disbelief mixed with a giant heaping dose of incuriosity:
I am partial to having opinions myself, provided they are carefully justified, and I am not convinced that verdicts are always artifacts of incuriosity: Even when we have deemed an artwork beautiful or ugly, we have yet to discover what makes it flow or falter.
Yet the episode with Vicentino demonstrates that Lusitano’s merits could not overcome factors like the incuriosity of future scholars.
It’s a rendering so lazy, it suggests a stubborn incuriosity about how Monroe would have actually experienced her pregnancies, even as the film presents them as character-defining events.
And in that sense the commitments that Roe required of its supporters anticipate the entirety of liberalism’s drift: toward a debilitating mix of expert certainty and incuriosity, moral superiority and ignorance of what its adversaries actually believe.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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