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Indifference vs Ataraxy - What's the difference?

indifference | ataraxy |

As nouns the difference between indifference and ataraxy

is that indifference is the state of being indifferent while ataraxy is the freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.

indifference

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being indifferent.
  • Unbiased impartiality.
  • Unemotional apathy.
  • * His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human.
  • A lack of enthusiasm.
  • Unconcerned nonchalance.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}

    ataraxy

    English

    Noun

    (ataraxies)
  • The freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively.
  • *1973 , (w, Patrick O'Brian), HMS Surprise :
  • *:There was no longer any need for fortitude: he felt nothing at present and there was no point in artificial ataraxy .
  • *1993 , (Will Self), My Idea Of Fun :
  • *:I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy .
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