Apathy Definition
Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
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Origin of Apathy
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From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apatheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathēs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (pathos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”).
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Latin apathīa from Greek apatheia from apathēs without feeling a- without a–1 pathos feeling kwent(h)- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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