the feeling of not being interested in or enthusiastic about something, or things in general 冷漠;淡漠 Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsc2, Feelingsc2Such attitudes can only lead to apathy. 这样的态度只能导致冷漠。 a general apathy towards politics 对于政治普遍的冷淡
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- general
- widespread
- political
- …
- suffer from
- fall into
- sink into
- …
- apathy among
- apathy towards/toward
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathēs ‘without feeling’, from a- ‘without’ + pathos ‘suffering’.