- 1冷漠、漠不關心
Apathy is the feeling of not caring — little or no interest, and no will to change or improve things. We talk about voter apathy, student apathy, public apathy when a lot of people have switched off. It is a noun for the empty space where feeling should be, and it is a little formal; in daily talk we say they just don’t care. Though actually, teachers and news writers sometimes use it as a soft blame-word: if people stay home from a vote, the story may say apathy, when the real mix might be tiredness, distrust, or not knowing what to do. The tidy dictionary picture is “no emotion”; real use often means “no action.” The old Greek idea was even different again: not being pushed around by passion, which some philosophers treated as a kind of calm — not the everyday “I can’t be bothered.”
From the word’s history
From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek apatheia: a- 'not' + pathos 'feeling, emotion'.
源自古希臘文 apatheia：a-「沒有」加 pathos「感受、情緒」。
組成From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia): ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling, what happens to you”). A learned twin, apatheia, was later borrowed straight from Greek.
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apathynoun/ˈæ.pə.θi/
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Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
- I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.
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