Indifference vs Unobserving - What's the difference?
indifference | unobserving |
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 Failing to observe something; unobservant.
*{{quote-book, year=1888, author=(Edward Eggleston), title=The Mystery of Metropolisville
, passage=It was full of heartbreak, and Katy was too unobserving to notice how round and steady and commercial the penmanship was, and how large and fine were the flourishes. }}
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1908, author=(George Barr McCutcheon), title=The Man From Brodney's, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then she looked at Chase and winked, with a meaning nod at the unobserving Deppingham. }}
As a noun indifference
is indifference, uncaringness.As an adjective unobserving is
failing to observe something; unobservant.indifference
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
unobserving
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Adjective
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