Indifference

Definition of Indifference

In`dif´fer`ence

n.	1.
	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.
	2.	Passableness; mediocrity.
	3.	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. - Sir T. More.
	4.	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. - Addison.

Related Words

Laodiceanism, abandon, abeyance, absentmindedness, abstraction, abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

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