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Look up: apathy

  1. apathy
    [Noun] A lack of interest or enthusiasm.
    Example: Few young people voted in the last general election, due to apathy.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. apathy
    [n] - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm 2. [n] - the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. apathy
    a feeling and an attitude of indifference and insensitivity to people and events; A passive, helpless and unhelping behaviour in case of crisis; Insensibility to suffering Category: Management in the public and private sector
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Apathy
    Ap'a·thy noun ; plural Apathies [ Latin apathia , Greek ...; 'a priv. + ..., from ..., ..., to suffer: confer French apathie . See Pathos .] Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/100

  5. apathy
    <psychology> The lack of feeling or emotion, indifference. ... Origin: Gr. Apatheia ... (13 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. apathy
    noun an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. apathy
    numbness noun the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Apathy
    `Apathy` is a state of `indifference` — where an individual has an absence of interest or concern to certain aspects of emotional, social, or physical life. Apathy can be object-specific — toward a person, activity or environment. It is a common reaction to stress where it manifests as `learned helplessness` and is commonly associated with depression. It can also reflect a non-pathological lack of interest in things one does not cons...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apathy

  9. apathy
    (ap´ә-the) lack of feeling or emotions; indifference.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  10. Apathy
    • (n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. apathy
    in Stoic philosophy, condition of being totally free from the path, which roughly are the emotions and passions, notably pain, fear, desire, and ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/86

  12. apathy
    (Gr. apatheia) lack of feeling or emotion; indifference.
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/

  13. apathy
    apathy 1. Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference. 2. Freedom from, or insensibility to, suffering; hence, freedom from or insensibility to passion or feeling; passionless existence. From 1847, Lewes Historical Philosophy, “Apathy was considered by the Stoics as the highest condition of H...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  14. apathy
    Indifference; absence of interest in the environment. Often one of the earliest signs of cerebral disease. [G. apatheia, fr. a- priv. + pathos, suffering]
    Found on http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45

  15. apathy
    1. an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
    2. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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