From French apathie , from Latin apathīa , from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια ( apátheia , “ impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion ” ) , from ἀπαθής ( apathḗs , “ not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of ” ) , from ἀ- ( a- , “ not ” ) + πάθος ( páthos , “ anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion ” ) . Doublet of apatheia , which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek .
apathy (usually uncountable , plural apathies )
Lack of emotion or motivation ; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
Synonyms: indifference , neutrality , unconcern
Antonyms: concern , sympathy , interest , care
1818 , Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in Frankenstein [1] , archived from the original on 3 April 2012 :I opened it with apathy ; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.
lack of emotion or motivation
Afrikaans: apatie
Albanian: amti (sq) , apati (sq) f
Arabic: لَامُبَالَاة ( lā-mubālāh ) , عَدَم اِكْتِرَاث ( ʕadam iktirāṯ ) , خُمُول ( ḵumūl )
Armenian: անտարբերություն (hy) ( antarberutʻyun ) , ապատիա (hy) ( apatia )
Asturian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: apatiya , maraqsızlıq
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: apatia (eu)
Belarusian: апа́тыя f ( apátyja ) , абыя́кавасць f ( abyjákavascʹ ) , абыя́касць f ( abyjákascʹ ) , раўнаду́шнасць f ( raŭnadúšnascʹ )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: апа́тия (bg) f ( apátija ) , нечувстви́телност (bg) f ( nečuvstvítelnost ) , равноду́шие (bg) n ( ravnodúšie )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: apatia (ca) f
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冷漠 (zh) ( lěngmò )
Czech: apatie (cs) f
Danish: apati c
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: apathie (nl) f , apathie (nl) m
Esperanto: apatio
Estonian: ükskõiksus , apaatia
Faroese: dølskni f or n , kensluloysi n , líkasæla f
Finnish: apatia (fi) , välinpitämättömyys (fi) , apaattisuus (fi)
French: apathie (fr) f
Galician: apatía f
Georgian: აპათია ( aṗatia )
German: Apathie (de) f , Phlegma (de) n
Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 m ( unlustus )
Greek: απάθεια (el) f ( apátheia )
Ancient: ἀκηδία f ( akēdía )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: אדישות (he) f ( adishut ) , אָפַּתְיָה (he) f ( apatia )
Hindi: अनुरागहीनता ? ( anurāghīntā )
Hungarian: apátia (hu) , közöny (hu) , közönyösség (hu) , fásultság (hu) , érdektelenség (hu)
Icelandic: áhugaleysi n , sinnuleysi n , tilfinningaleysi (is) n
Ido: apatio (io)
Irish: fuarchúis f , patuaire f , dímhothú m , fuacht m , fuarthé m , támh f
Japanese: 無感動 ( むかんどう, mukandō ) , 無関心 (ja) ( むかんしん, mukanshin )
Khmer: ភាពកន្តើយ ( pʰiep kɑntaəy )
Korean: 무감동 ( mugamdong ) , 무관심 (ko) ( mugwansim ) , 냉담 (ko) ( naengdam )
Latin: apathīa f , dūritia f
Latvian: apātija f
Macedonian: апатија f ( apatija )
Manx: neuyeeanid m , feayr-chooishaght f
Maori: ngākaukore , arokore , iwingohe , koroukore
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: apatia (oc) f
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish: یوركسزلك ( yüreksizlik )
Polish: apatia (pl) f , tępota (pl) f
Portuguese: apatia (pt) f , desânimo (pt) m
Romanian: apatie (ro) f
Russian: апа́тия (ru) f ( apátija ) , безразли́чие (ru) n ( bezrazlíčije ) , равноду́шие (ru) n ( ravnodúšije )
Sanskrit: उदास (sa) m ( udāsa )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: апа̀тија f
Roman: apàtija (sh) f
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: apatia f , ľahostajnosť f , nevšímavosť f
Slovene: apatija f
Spanish: apatía (es) f
Swedish: apati (sv) c
Tamil: அக்கறையின்மை (ta) ( akkaṟaiyiṉmai )
Telugu: ఉదాసీనత (te) ( udāsīnata )
Turkish: apati
Ukrainian: апа́тія (uk) f ( apátija ) , байду́жість (uk) f ( bajdúžistʹ ) , байду́жність (uk) f ( bajdúžnistʹ )
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: difaterwch m , difrawder m
Yiddish: אַפּאַטיע f ( apatye )