Added 9 October 2026
apathy
/ˈæ.pə.θi/ noun
In Latin: apathīa, dūritia Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about apathy at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
- The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.
Origin
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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