Antipathy vs Apathy - What's the difference?
antipathy | apathy |
Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
* Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. --Washington.
Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
* A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I. Taylor.
Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
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As nouns the difference between antipathy and apathy
is that antipathy is contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste while apathy is complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.antipathy
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(antipathies)Usage notes
* Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".Synonyms
* hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, oppositionAntonyms
* sympathyExternal links
* * *apathy
English
(wikipedia apathy)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.}}