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Indifference vs Indifferency - What's the difference?

indifference | indifferency |

As nouns the difference between indifference and indifferency

is that indifference is indifference, uncaringness while indifferency is (obsolete) impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.

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.}}

    indifferency

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Impartiality, fairness, disinterestedness.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1628, author=Samuel Ward, title= A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale
    • , passage=Doe we thinke he will ever digest us, in the temper wee are in? which (to confesse the truth of the fashionable Christian) what is it but a state of neutrality, indifferency , or such a mediocrity, as will just serve the time, satisfie Law, or stand with reputation of neighbours?}}
  • (obsolete) A lack of strong feeling; indifference.
  • *, II.29:
  • *:he was sometimes found in his house, bitterly scolding with his sister, for which being reproved, as he that wronged his indifferencie : What? said he; must this seely woman also serve as a witnesse to my rules?
  • *{{quote-book, year=1722, author=Daniel Defoe, title= The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c.
    • , passage=I carried it on as far as this with a sort of indifferency' that he often wondered at, more than at first, but which was the only support of his courtship; and I mention it the rather to intimate again to the ladies that nothing but want of courage for such an ' indifferency makes our sex so cheap, and prepares them to be ill-used as they are; would they venture the loss of a pretending fop now and then, who carries it high upon the point of his own merit, they would certainly be less slighted, and courted more.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Thomas Carlyle, title= The Life of John Sterling
    • , passage=For example, one sceptical figure praised the Church of England, in Hume's phrase, "as a Church tending to keep down fanaticism," and recommendable for its very indifferency ; whereupon a transcendental figure urges him: "You are afraid of the horse's kicking: but will you sacrifice all qualities to being safe from that?}}