'apathy' definitions:
Definition of 'apathy'
(from WordNet)
noun
An absence of emotion or enthusiasm
noun
The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally [syn: apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessness]
Synonyms of 'apathy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyance,
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- accidia,
- acedia,
- alienation,
- aloofness,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- benumbedness,
- blah,
- blahs,
- boredom,
- callousness,
- calmness,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- catalepsy,
- catatonia,
- catatonic stupor,
- cave of despair,
- cave of Trophonius,
- coldness,
- comatoseness,
- compulsion,
- deadliness,
- deathliness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despair,
- desperateness,
- desperation,
- despondency,
- detachment,
- disconsolateness,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- disregard,
- disregardfulness,
- dormancy,
- drowsiness,
- dullness,
- easygoingness,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- enervation,
- ennui,
- entropy,
- euphoria,
- fatigue,
- folie du doute,
- forlornness,
- halfheartedness,
- hardness,
- heartlessness,
- heaviness,
- hebetude,
- heedlessness,
- hopelessness,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- inanimation,
- inappetence,
- inattention,
- incuriosity,
- incuriousness,
- indifference,
- indifferentism,
- indifferentness,
- indiscrimination,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inexcitability,
- insensibility,
- insensitivity,
- insouciance,
- intellectual inertia,
- jadedness,
- lack of affect,
- lack of appetite,
- lack of interest,
- lackadaisicalness,
- languidness,
- languishment,
- languor,
- languorousness,
- Laodiceanism,
- lassitude,
- latency,
- lenitude,
- lentor,
- lethargicalness,
- lethargy,
- lifelessness,
- listlessness,
- lotus-eating,
- lukewarmness,
- mania,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- mindlessness,
- negligence,
- no exit,
- no way,
- no way out,
- nonchalance,
- numbness,
- obduracy,
- obsession,
- oscitancy,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- phlegm,
- phlegmaticalness,
- phlegmaticness,
- plucklessness,
- pococurantism,
- preoccupation,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- satedness,
- sleepiness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slowness,
- sluggishness,
- somnolence,
- sopor,
- soporifousness,
- spiritlessness,
- spunklessness,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- stasis,
- stoicism,
- stolidity,
- stupefaction,
- stupor,
- supineness,
- suspense,
- tic,
- torpidity,
- torpidness,
- torpitude,
- torpor,
- twitching,
- unanxiousness,
- unawareness,
- unconcern,
- uninquisitiveness,
- uninterestedness,
- unmindfulness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsolicitousness,
- vegetation,
- vis inertiae,
- weariness,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- world-weariness