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US
/ˈæpəθi/
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[ UK /ˈæpəθi/ ]
[ UK /ˈæpəθi/ ]
NOUN
- an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
How To Use apathy In A Sentence
- Far from being sunk in unenquiring apathy, the suburbs are in constant flux. The Times Literary Supplement
- Some people exude outright disinterest and apathy towards their country's films.
- The issue of student apathy has been tossed around a lot this past couple weeks.
- With a federal election looming, a new organisation says they are tackling the heart of youth voter apathy.
- That is why it said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference, our apathy to act, our coldness in commitment.
- Now, Obama's election promises revolved, exactly, around the hope of doing away with the objectivization of political life and its corollaries: disenchantment, voter apathy, and nihilism. TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
- And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy, by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
- She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
- Apathy was so widespread that we had to cut the number of polling stations there.
- If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days (errant apostrophes et al.) then this book will delight you.