apathy

In “Kitchen Confidential,” Bourdain describes his decision to head to Provincetown as an impulse motivated less by romantic desire than by general apathy.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The musician has been receiving medication and treatment; but says the condition also comes with episodes of anxiety, depression, and apathy.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Besides large class sizes and underfunding, I think public educators are largely battling apathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Investor apathy toward China stems from weak consumer spending and bank loan growth, and increased US-China trade restrictions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Today in his apathy John stared at them, not seeing; he began to dust them with the exaggerated care of the profoundly preoccupied.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

But European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the commonest manifestations of insanity are excitements and depressions, apathies and manias, hallucinations, delusions and obsessions, all of which are reproducible under known conditions of internal secretion excess or failure.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.

The next news I had of him was in his essay, "Ordered South," concerning the emotions, apathies, and pleasures, on that then fairy coast, of a young man who thinks that his days are numbered.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

She learned more of Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as discouraging as her apathies.

From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

And yet again they seem to use words rightly when they call those joys and wishes and cautions not apathies but good conditions of the mind.

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto