English-Thai Dictionary

apathy

N การ ขาด ความ กระตือรือร้น  การ ขาด ความสนใจ  unconcern indifference kan-khad-khwam-kra-tue-rue-ron

 

apathy

N การ ไร้อารมณ์  kan-rai-ar-rom

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APATHY

n.[Gr. passion. ] Want of feeling; an utter privation of passion, or insensibility to pain; applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is stoicism, a calmness of mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain or passion. In the first ages of the church, the christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
Quietism is apathy disguised under the appearance of devotion.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

APATHY

Ap "a *thy, n.; pl. Apathies. Etym: [L. apathia, Gr. apathie. See Pathos. ]

 

Defn: Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair. " Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him. .. to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

 

Note: In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.

 

Syn. -- Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern; stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

apathy

ap a thy |ˈapəTHē ˈæpəθi | ▶noun lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern: widespread apathy among students. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathēs ‘without feeling, ’ from a- ‘without ’ + pathos ‘suffering. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

apathy

apathy |ˈapəθi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern: widespread apathy among students. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathēs ‘without feeling ’, from a- ‘without ’ + pathos ‘suffering ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

apathy

apathy noun widespread apathy among the voters: indifference, lack of interest, lack of enthusiasm, lack of concern, unconcern, uninterestedness, unresponsiveness, impassivity, dispassion, lethargy, languor, ennui; rare acedia.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

apathy

apathy noun there were reports of widespread apathy amongst the electorate: indifference, lack of interest, lack of enthusiasm, lack of concern, unconcern, uninterestedness, unresponsiveness, impassivity, passivity, passiveness, detachment, dispassion, dispassionateness, lack of involvement, phlegm, coolness; listlessness, lethargy, languor, lassitude, torpor; boredom, ennui, accidie; rare acedia, mopery. ANTONYMS enthusiasm, interest, passion.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

apathy

ap a thy /ǽpəθi /名詞 U 1 «…についての /…に対する » 無関心, 冷淡 (indifference ) «about /to , toward » .2 無感動, 無気力 .