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.

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, 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.}}

Noun

(-)

Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.

* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.