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Apathy
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is dissonance. Does it mean:
| free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction |
| unresolved, discordant chord or interval |
Example Sentences
- Spouse apathy (if not outright derision) is not uncommon in collector households.
- Try not to allow their apathy to affect your enthusiasm.
- For years, student apathy has been blamed for the low turnout.
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Word Origin & History
apathy
c.1600, "freedom from suffering," from Fr. apathie (16c.), from L. apathia, from Gk. apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability," from apathes "without feeling," from a- "without" + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see pathos). Originally a positive quality; sense
EXPANDof "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c.1733.
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apathy ap·a·thy (āp'ə-thē)
n.
Lack of interest, concern, or emotion; indifference.
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apathy
in Stoic philosophy, condition of being totally free from the pathe, which roughly are the emotions and passions, notably pain, fear, desire, and pleasure. Although remote origins of the doctrine can probably be found in the Cynics (second half of the 4th century BC), it was Zeno of Citium (4th-3rd century BC) who explicitly taught that the pathe were to be extirpated entirely.
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