01 n. Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the min…
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Apathies
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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.“A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.” — Prescott.“According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.” — Fleming.