Meaning
Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
Etymology
Origin: Latin
From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.
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NYT Puzzle Appearances
Accepted in 4 recorded puzzles: