Apathy vs Listless - What's the difference?
apathy | listless |
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
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
* 1818 , , Frankenstein , ch. 18:
* 1861 , , The Stokesley Secret , ch. 6:
* 1901 , , The Hero , ch. 21:
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As a noun apathy
is complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.As an adjective listless is
lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.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.}}
listless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”