apathy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something). uncountable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

apathies plural

词汇关系

反义词
concern enthusiasm excitement interest passion vigour

词源

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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