Noun

(en-noun)

Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.

* {{quote-book, year=1818

, author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=2 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.}}

Noun

(en noun)

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 , 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;

* 2007 : Will Self & Ralph Steadman, Psychogeography , 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.