indifference

[In*dif·fer*ence]

Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.

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The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

Noun
the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

Noun
the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern

Noun
apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

Noun
unbiased impartial unconcern


n.
The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

n.
Passableness; mediocrity.

n.
Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.

n.
Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.


Indifference

In*dif"fer*ence , n. [L. indifferentia similarity, want of difference: cf. F. indiff'82rence.] 1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. 2. Passableness; mediocrity. 3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign.
4. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.
Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance.
Syn. -- Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy; insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness.

The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

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Usage Examples

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

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Other Usage Examples

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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