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apathy.

Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈæ.pə.θi/
  1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

    uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

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.

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