indifference

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being indifferent. countable,uncountable
    — "I do not care for them; I would not have them now," cried Lady Penrhyn; "it is only your affection I care for. Do not suppose, for a moment, that I wish for the tables when you do not: oh, no! my only concern was for your indifference. But I am content if you tell me I was mistaken."
  2. Unbiased impartiality. countable,uncountable
  3. Unemotional apathy. countable,uncountable
    — His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she felt no empathy for the bullied.
  4. A lack of enthusiasm. countable,uncountable
  5. Unconcerned nonchalance. countable,uncountable
    — I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
  6. Self-identity defined through the negation of difference, non-difference. countable,uncountable
    — "I call reason absolute reason, or reason insofar as it is conceived as the total indifference of the subjective and objective."

词形变化

indifferences plural

词汇关系

衍生词
defensive indifference depraved-indifference murder indifference curve la belle indifference liberty of indifference principle of indifference unindifference
相关词
same difference

词源

From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia. By surface analysis, in- + difference.
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