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Indifference   /ɪndˈɪfərəns/  /ɪndˈɪfrəns/   Listen
Indifference

noun
1.
Unbiased impartial unconcern.
2.
Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.  Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality.
3.
The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally.  Synonyms: apathy, numbness, spiritlessness.
4.
The trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern.  Synonyms: nonchalance, unconcern.





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"Indifference" Quotes from Famous Books



... worldlings, who judge him, not by what he does that is good and useful, but by what he does not do to gratify them. Because he spends the greater part of the year in retirement at his castles in the country, coming to Munich only for the session of Parliament in the winter, he is accused of indifference to the prosperity of his state and the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... a laxity of morals and an indifference to books, a military system of discipline was enforced: lights had to be out at ten o'clock, and a student caught off the grounds without leave was punished. The teacher was a vicarious soldier. At that time each school had a prison attached, of which the ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard
... they have at length met with their deserts. A coachman who was driving me yesterday told me in the strictest confidence that he was a man who never meddled in politics, and, consequently, it was a matter of absolute indifference to him whether Napoleon or a "General Prussien" lived in the Tuileries; and this, I suspect, is the view that many here take, if they ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... prophecy of the distant autumn and made gay with colour the young greenery of spring. Meanwhile, school went on, and John grew stronger and broader in this altogether wholesome atmosphere of outdoor activity and indoor life of kindness and apparently inattentive indifference on the part ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... indeed, then. I have been under two or three men who, either from ignorance or ill-temper or sheer indifference, have been enough to take the heart ...
— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty


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