Synonyms for indifference
ɪnˈdɪf ər əns, -ˈdɪf rənsin·dif·fer·ence

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1. indifference

   Apathy, according to its Greek derivation, is a simple absence of feeling or emotion. There are persons to whom a certain degree of apathy is natural, an innate sluggishness of the emotional nature. In the apathy of despair, a person gives up, without resistance or sensibility, to what he has fiercely struggled to avoid. While apathy is want of feeling, calmness is feeling without agitation. Calmness is the result of strength, courage, or trust; apathy is the result of dulness or weakness. Composure is freedom from agitation or disturbance, resulting ordinarily from force of will, or from perfect confidence in one's own resources. Impassibility is a philosophical term applied to the Deity, as infinitely exalted above all stir of passion or emotion. Unfeelingness, the Saxon word that should be the exact equivalent of apathy, really means more, a lack of the feeling one ought to have, a censurable hardness of heart. Indifference and insensibility designate the absence of feeling toward certain persons or things; apathy, entire absence of feeling. Indifference is a want of interest; insensibility is a want of feeling; unconcern has reference to consequences. We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance. Stoicism is an intentional suppression of feeling and deadening of sensibilities, while apathy is involuntary. Compare CALM; REST; STUPOR.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, insensibility, lethargy, phlegm, quietness, quietude, sluggishness, stillness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingness

   Antonyms:
   agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemence, violence

   Preposition:
   The apathy of monastic life; apathy toward good.

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1. indifference

   Synonyms:
   triviality, unimportance, insignificance, coolness, carelessness, apathy, insensibility, composure

   Antonyms:
   importance, significance, weight, gravity, eagerness, interest, affection, ardor

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1. indifferencenoun

   unbiased impartial unconcern

   Synonyms:
   phlegm, apathy, impassivity, nonchalance, spiritlessness, unconcern, numbness, emotionlessness, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality

2. emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionalitynoun

   apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

   Synonyms:
   sluggishness, spiritlessness, sputum, stolidness, flatness, emotionlessness, lethargy, languor, numbness, unemotionality, impassiveness, phlegm, impassivity, stoicism, nonchalance, apathy, stolidity, unconcern

3. apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessnessnoun

   the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

   Synonyms:
   phlegm, impassivity, nonchalance, spiritlessness, apathy, unconcern, numbness, emotionlessness, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality

4. nonchalance, unconcern, indifferencenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   nonchalance, impassivity, phlegm, unconcern, spiritlessness, numbness, apathy, emotionlessness, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality

Matched Categories

1. • Apathy
   • Passivity
   • Unconcern

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1. indifferencenoun

   Synonyms:
   neutrality, impartiality, disinterestedness, freedom from bias or prejudice

2. indifferencenoun

   Synonyms:
   unconcernedness, apathy, coldness, carelessness, negligence, heedlessness, inattention, want of interest

3. indifferencenoun

   Synonyms:
   triviality, unimportance, insignificance

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1. indifferencenoun

   Synonyms:
   apathy, coolness, negligence, unconcern, nonchalance, insouciance, mediocrity, inferiority, neutrality, impartiality, disinterestedness

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1. List of paraphrases for "indifference":

   apathy, disregard, neglect, recklessness, inattention, complacency

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1. Oliver L. North:

   There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

2. Kelly Dorsey:

   To leave your friend on the ground, knowing that he's not there anymore -- he's either dead or he's going to die -- that's indifference, he didn't need to pull the trigger.

3. Yvonne Padmos:

   I'd rather ascend mountains on repeat, with a home encircled by eagles, than dwell among city gazes, witnessing gossip and indifference towards fellow humans. For humans construct mountains, complicating lives, whereas a real mountain is simpler for me to conquer.

4. President Barack Obama:

   There are consequences to inaction. There are consequences to indifference, and they reverberate far beyond the walls of the projects, the borders of the barrier or the roads of the reservation. They sap us of our strength as a nation.

5. Antony Blinken:

   Bucha is not normal. Mariupol is not normal. Irpin is not normal. Bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal. Stealing Ukrainian children from their families and giving them to people in Russia is not normal, we must not let President Putin’s callous indifference to human life become our own.