Lament vs Indifference - What's the difference?
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To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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* Dryden
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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As nouns the difference between lament and indifference
is that lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness while indifference is indifference, uncaringness.As a verb lament
is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.lament
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* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
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(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.}}