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/ɪndˈɪfərəns/ /ɪndˈɪfrəns/ Listen

noun

Indifference n.

The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; lack of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

Passableness; mediocrity.

Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. "He... is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign."

Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs. "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."

Synonyms: Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy; insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness.

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Etymology of 'Indifference'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indifference" Quotes from Famous Books

... where there is nothing for the police, the Judges, and the doctors to do he finds startling. They have attained the height where priests, pastors, preachers, and teachers are rarely obliged to contend with indifference.... ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... in it. I remember now that bitter letter about Fame, which Tennyson wrote when he had attained a world-wide reputation. He found Fame to be hostility from his peers, indifference from his superiors, worship from those he despised. He would barter all his Fame for L5,000 a year; and was sorry he ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... can do. Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly. Your indifference is half affectation, and a good stirring ...

— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... There are faint-hearted friends behind; there are loud-voiced foes in front. The brewer's dray has been pulled across the road, and behind it are embattled a formidable confederation of vested interests. A mountainous obstacle of indifference and apathy bars our advance. What is your counsel? Forward ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... earnestly wish this might be the case, he carefully recollected all the passages of her behaviour, her looks, her words, nay, the very accents of her voice, were re-examined, in hope to find some tokens of that happy indifference, which alone could make him easy in this affair; but all this retrospect afforded him no more than uncertain conjectures, and imaginations which frequently contradicted each other, and indeed served only to increase his doubts, ...

— Life's Progress Through The Passions - Or, The Adventures of Natura • Eliza Fowler Haywood

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