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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state or quality of being indifferent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being indifferent, as between persons or things; absence of prepossession or bias; impartiality.
  2. n. The state of being indifferent or apathetic; the absence of definite preference or choice; want of differentiation or variation of feeling; absence of special interest; apathy; insensibility.
  3. n. The character of being indifferent or immaterial; want of essential difference with respect to choice, use or non-use, etc.; immateriality; unimportance: as, the indifference of particular actions or things.
  4. n. The condition of being indifferent in character or quality; a falling short of the standard of excellence; comparative mediocrity: as, the indifference of one's penmanship or work. Also indifferency.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being indifferent.
  2. n. Unbiased impartiality.
  3. n. Unemotional apathy.
  4. n. A lack of enthusiasm.
  5. n. Unconcerned nonchalance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.
  2. n. Passableness; mediocrity.
  3. n. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
  4. n. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
  2. n. unbiased impartial unconcern
  3. n. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
  4. n. the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern

Examples

  • “Farrow said she was baffled and frustrated by what she called the indifference of Britons to Darfur, the region of Sudan where 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million been forced from their homes in four years of fighting between the Sudanese government and local rebels.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “The liberty which we call indifference is a word without an idea — an absurdity; for this would be to determine without reason; it would be an effect without a cause.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary

  • “Up next here, three congressmen voicing anger, frustration, and outrage at President Bush for what they call his indifference to those imprisoned Border Patrol agents, and the president's outright arrogance.”

    CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2007

  • “But the court did issue a stinging rebuke for what it calls their indifference to their constitutional duties.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006

  • “Brana's (ph) uncle, Rashid, blames their deaths on what he calls the indifference the American troops who control Baghdad and on Saddam Hussein, who released tens of thousands of convicts before the war.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2003

  • “She then closed up the hut and covered the few coals with ashes so that the fire would not die out entirely, just as a man does with his inner feelings; he covers them with the ashes of his life, which he calls indifference, so that they may not be deadened by daily contact with his fellows.”

    The Social Cancer

  • “That "indifference" is the key word, and I wonder if it's this that's at the root of the confusion between appropriation and (mis) representation.”

    Cultural Appropriation

  • “Is this representative of a certain indifference to the qualities of commercial manga or is there some sort of cultural forbearance and variation in standards at work here?”

    Standards and practices

  • “Every week, they publish that a boat is arriving, facing the indifference from the authorities, to take away the material from the looting of these metals.”

    Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Theft of Cables and Scrap Metal

  • “But what I get most often is indifference from the waiter.”

    Would overtipping waiters prevent bad service? « Digital immigrant

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synonyms (14)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lukewarmness
  2. unconcern
  1. insensibility
  2. carelessness
  1. coldness
  2. apathy
  1. negligence
  2. insignificance
  1. passableness
  2. mediocrity
  1. impartiality
  2. unconcernedness
  1. ordinariness
  2. unimportance

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. passivity
  1. passiveness
  1. apathy
  1. carefreeness

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. contempt
  2. ignorance
  3. apathy
  1. coldness
  2. arrogance
  3. pride
  1. carelessness
  2. curiosity
  3. neglect
  1. hatred
  2. resignation
  3. confidence
  1. composure
  2. dignity
  3. weakness

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. difference

reverse dictionary (112)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. aloofness
  2. detachment
  3. distance
  4. apathy
  5. indifferency
  6. estrange
  7. negligence
  8. neutrality
  9. stoical
  10. to look down on
  11. incuriosity
  12. indifferentism
  13. indisturbance
  14. disinterest
  15. dissympathy
  16. deadness
  17. lethargy
  18. to make no difference
  19. set
  20. coolly
  21. cold-heartedness
  22. coldly
  1. gallian
  2. tossily
  3. nonchalance
  4. nonchalantly
  5. overskip
  6. perfunctorily
  7. pococurantism
  8. sang-froid
  9. stoically
  10. stoicalness
  11. stoicity
  12. cold-shoulder
  13. secularism
  14. irreligion
  15. Shays
  16. gape
  17. ataraxia
  18. cynicism
  19. hem
  20. indifferenced
  21. insouciance
  22. latitudinarianism
  1. listlessness
  2. lounge
  3. lukewarmness
  4. dismissive
  5. uninterest
  6. unconcern
  7. stoicism
  8. huh
  9. perfunctory
  10. adiaphorism
  11. adiaphory
  12. all a case
  13. adiaphoracy
  14. animalism
  15. courtly love
  16. step
  17. shrug
  18. whatever
  19. stolidity
  20. stolidness
  21. asleep
  22. callous
  1. cool
  2. eye
  3. stir
  4. pall
  5. supine
  6. disaffect
  7. indifferently
  8. lightly
  9. alien
  10. alienate
  11. methane series
  12. neglect
  13. neutralize
  14. phlegm
  15. to play possum
  16. quietism
  17. revival
  18. rouse
  19. slightness
  20. stoic
  21. to turn a cold shoulder to
  22. adiaphorist
  1. atheism
  2. calmness
  3. coolness
  4. cruel
  5. cruelty
  6. defy
  7. egotism
  8. esthete
  9. fling
  10. impassibility
  11. indifference
  12. indifferent
  13. insensibility
  14. latitudinarian
  15. neglectful
  16. negligent
  17. one
  18. philosophic
  19. Sufi
  20. superstition
  21. photometry
  22. zero
  1. throw
  2. well

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  • sionnach INDIFFERENCE

    In loopy links the canker crawls,
    Tads twiddle in their 'polian glee,
    Yet sinks my heart as water falls.
    The loon that laughs, the babe that bawls,
    The wedding wear, the funeral palls,
    Are neither here nor there to me.
    Of life the mingled wine and brine
    I sit and sip pipslipsily.

    _Anonymous_.

    Feb 9, 2009

  • bilby (The protagonist of this passage has just thumped his sister for trying to sabotage one of his drawings):

    "He could only think of the grey smear on the picture. Coldness and indifference spread through him like a stain. Later he heard his father come and murmurs of conversation from the living room. Mr Thaw opened the bedroom door abruptly saying,
    'Duncan! Did you punch Ruth in the stomach?'
    'Yes. We were fighting.'
    'Look, Duncan, I'm glad you're prepared to defend yourself but you should never punch a woman in the stomach.'
    'I'm sorry. I don't know how to hurt women properly yet.'
    His father left and he lay inert, thinking of the picture."
    - 'Lanark', Alasdair Gray.
    Dec 1, 2007

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