indifference

n.

The state or quality of being indifferent.

noun

1. Lack of importance: inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsequentialness, insignificance, insignificancy, unimportance. See concern/unconcern.
2. Lack of emotion or interest: apathy, disinterest, impassivity, incuriosity, incuriousness, insensibility, insensibleness, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, phlegm, stolidity, stolidness, unconcern, uninterest, unresponsiveness. See feelings.

n

Definition: absence of feeling, interest
Antonyms: care, caring, compassion, concern, feeling, heed, interest, involvement, regard, sympathy

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IN BRIEF: The state of not caring.

Enthusiasm with error is more acceptable than indifference with perfection. — J. Dinneen

Quotes:

"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion." - Abraham Cowley

"Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household." - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." - Samuel Johnson

"Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever." - Georg C. Lichtenberg

"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people." - Peter Marshall

"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent." - Francis Picabia

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - ligegyldighed, ligegladhed, indifferens

Nederlands (Dutch)
onverschilligheid, onbeduidendheid

Français (French)
n. - indifférence

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gleichgültigkeit, Bedeutungslosigkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αδιαφορία, ψυχρότητα

Italiano (Italian)
indifferenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - indiferença (f)

Русский (Russian)
безразличие, незначительность, посредственность

Español (Spanish)
n. - indiferencia, apatía

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - likgiltighet, betydelselöshet, medelmåttighet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
不重视, 漠不关心, 无兴趣

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 不重視, 漠不關心, 無興趣

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 무관심, 사소함, 무차별

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 無関心, 無頓着, 冷淡, 重要でないこと

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لا مبالاة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדישות‬

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