Indifference \In*dif"fer*ence\, n. [L. indifferentia similarity,
lack of difference: cf. F. indiff['e]rence.]
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1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a
difference; lack of sufficient importance to constitute a
difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
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2. Passableness; mediocrity.
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3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or
bias.
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He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as
ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign.
--Sir T. More.
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4. 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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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. --Addison.
Syn: Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy;
insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
indifference
n 1: unbiased impartial unconcern
2: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
[syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm,
stolidity, unemotionality]
3: the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things
generally [syn: apathy, spiritlessness]
4: the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a
casual lack of concern [syn: nonchalance, unconcern]
WordNet (r) 2.0
265 Moby Thesaurus words for "indifference":
Laodiceanism, abandon, abeyance, absentmindedness, abstraction,
abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent,
anxiety state, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah,
blahs, boredom, callousness, careless abandon, carelessness,
casualness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatonic stupor, coldness,
comatoseness, compulsion, coolness, cursoriness, deadliness,
deathliness, dejection, depression, detachment, disinterest,
disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard,
disregardfulness, distraction, dormancy, drowsiness, dullness,
easiness, easygoingness, elation, emotionalism, enervation, ennui,
entropy, equitability, equitableness, euphoria, evenhandedness,
fairishness, fairness, fatigue, flightiness, flippancy,
folie du doute, forgetfulness, frivolousness, giddiness, hastiness,
heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness,
hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, immateriality, impartiality,
impassiveness, impassivity, impotence, imprecision, inadvertence,
inadvertency, inanimation, inappetence, inattention,
inattentiveness, inconsequence, inconsequentiality,
inconsiderableness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration,
incuriosity, incuriousness, indevotion, indevoutness,
indifferentism, indifferentness, indolence, ineffectuality,
inertia, inertness, inferiority, inobservance, insensibility,
insignificance, insouciance, intellectual inertia, irrelevance,
jadedness, lack of appetite, lack of foresight, lack of interest,
lackadaisicalness, lackluster, languidness, languishment, languor,
languorousness, lassitude, latency, laxity, laxness, laziness,
leniency, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, levity,
lifelessness, lightmindedness, listlessness, littleness, looseness,
loosening, lotus-eating, low priority, lukewarm piety, mania,
marginality, mediocreness, mediocrity, melancholia,
mental distress, middlingness, moderateness, modestness, modesty,
negligence, negligibility, neutrality, nonchalance, nonobservance,
nonreligiousness, numbness, objectivity, oblivion, obliviousness,
obsession, offhandedness, oscitancy, overindulgence,
overpermissiveness, passableness, passiveness, passivity,
pathological indecisiveness, perfunctoriness, permissiveness,
pettiness, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, picayune,
picayunishness, plucklessness, pococurantism, pokiness,
preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, puniness,
recklessness, regardlessness, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness,
resignation, resignedness, respectability, satedness,
secondariness, shallowness, slackness, sleepiness, slightness,
sloppiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, smallness,
softness, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness,
sprezzatura, spunklessness, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis,
stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, superficiality, supineness,
suspense, tactlessness, tediousness, thoughtlessness, tic,
tolerableness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor,
triviality, twitching, unalertness, unawareness, unbiasedness,
unconcern, unconsciousness, undevoutness, undutifulness,
unheedfulness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, uninquisitiveness,
unintentiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unnoteworthiness,
unobservance, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness, unpreparedness,
unreadiness, unreligiousness, unresponsiveness, unrestraint,
unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unthinkingness, unwariness,
unwatchfulness, vegetation, vis inertiae, weakness, weariness,
withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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