Indifference

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  • noun. The state or quality of being indifferent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being indifferent, as between persons or things; absence of prepossession or bias; impartiality.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; lack of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
  • noun. Passableness; mediocrity.
  • noun. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
  • noun. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being indifferent.
  • noun. Unbiased impartiality.
  • noun. Unemotional apathy.
  • noun. A lack of enthusiasm.
  • noun. Unconcerned nonchalance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
  • noun. unbiased impartial unconcern
  • noun. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
  • noun. the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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