Apathetic vs Apathete - What's the difference?
apathetic | apathete |
Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
Of, or pertaining to apatheism.
An apathetic person; one given to apathy.
* 1976 : Christopher G. A. Bryant, Sociology in Action: A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist ,
* 2007 : Will Self & Ralph Steadman, Psychogeography ,
As an adjective apathetic
is void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.As a noun apathete is
an apathetic person; one given to apathy.apathetic
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Alternative forms
* apatheticalAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* indifferent. impassiveReferences
* English terms with alpha privativesapathete
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Noun
(en noun)page 145(Allen and Unwin; ISBN 0043000584, 9780043000588)
- He does not condemn the apathete , indeed he recognises that the alienating character of most industrial and commercial work affects leisure too;
page 42(Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.; ISBN 0747590338, 9780747590330)
- I remember that afternoon in SoHo because it was on my first, conscious trip to New York; and even an experienced apathete such as myself – the shirker of the Taj Mahal, the dodger of the Alhambra – was still struck by how inappropriate this seemed.