FromMiddle Frenchindifférence, fromLate Latinindifferentia. Bysurface analysis,in- +difference.
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/,/ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹəns/
- Hyphenation:in‧dif‧fer‧ence
indifference (countable anduncountable,pluralindifferences)
- The state of beingindifferent.
- Synonym:unconcern
1838 (date written),L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London:Henry Colburn, […], published1842,→OCLC,page115:"I do not care for them; I would not have them now," cried Lady Penrhyn; "it is only your affection I care for. Do not suppose, for a moment, that I wish for the tables when you do not: oh, no! my only concern was for yourindifference. But I am content if you tell me I was mistaken."
- Unbiasedimpartiality.
- Unemotionalapathy.
His daughter'sindifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she felt no empathy for the bullied.
2024 November 16, Naomi Beinart, “I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on19 November 2024:I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparentindifference of so many men and boys I saw that day.
- A lack ofenthusiasm.
- Unconcernednonchalance.
- (philosophy) Self-identity defined through the negation of difference, non-difference.
1801,FWJ Schelling,The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling, page145:"I call reason absolute reason, or reason insofar as it is conceived as the totalindifference of the subjective and objective."
the state of being indifferent
- Arabic:لَامُبَالَاة f(lāmubālāh)
- Armenian:անտարբերություն (hy)(antarberutʻyun)
- Belarusian:абыя́касць f(abyjákascʹ),абыя́кавасць f(abyjákavascʹ),раўнаду́шнасць f(rawnadúšnascʹ),раўнаду́шша n(rawnadúšša)
- Bulgarian:безразли́чие (bg) n(bezrazlíčie),равноду́шие (bg) n(ravnodúšie)
- Catalan:indiferència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:不關心 /不关心(bùguānxīn),冷淡 (zh)(lěngdàn)
- Czech:lhostejnost (cs) f
- Danish:ligegyldighed c
- Dutch:onverschilligheid (nl) f
- Esperanto:indiferenteco,malzorgo,neglekto
- Finnish:välinpitämättömyys (fi),penseys (fi)
- French:indifférence (fr) f
- Galician:indiferenza f
- German:Gleichgültigkeit (de) f
- Greek:αδιαφορία (el) f(adiaforía)
- Hebrew:אֲדִישׁוּת (he) f(adishút)
- Hindi:उदासीनता (hi) f(udāsīntā),बेरूख़ी f(berūxī)
- Hungarian:közöny (hu)
- Ido:indiferenteso (io)
- Irish:fuarchúis f
- Italian:indifferenza (it) f
- Japanese:無関心 (ja)(むかんしん, mukanshin),冷淡さ (ja)(れいたんさ, reitan sa)
- Korean:무관심(無關心) (ko)(mugwansim)
- Macedonian:рамнодушност f(ramnodušnost)
- Māori:arokore
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:likegyldighet (no) m orf
- Nynorsk:likesæle f
- Polish:obojętność (pl)
- Portuguese:indiferença (pt) f
- Romanian:indiferență (ro) f
- Russian:безразли́чие (ru) n(bezrazlíčije),равноду́шие (ru) n(ravnodúšije)
- Sanskrit:उदास (sa) m(udāsa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:равно̀душно̄ст f
- Latin:ravnòdušnōst (sh) f
- Slovak:ľahostajnosť f
- Slovene:ravnodušnost f
- Spanish:indiferencia (es) f,displicencia (es) f
- Swedish:likgiltighet (sv) c
- Tagalog:kalatubaan
- Turkish:ilgisizlik (tr),kayıtsızlık (tr),umursamazlık (tr)
- Ukrainian:байду́жість (uk) f(bajdúžistʹ),байду́жність (uk) f(bajdúžnistʹ),рівноду́шшя n(rivnodúššja)
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FromFrenchindifférence, fromLate Latinindifferentia
indifference c (singular definiteindifferencen,not used in plural form)
- (rare)indifference
- Synonyms:ligegyldighed,indifferens(“rare”)
