What's the difference between apathetic and dispassionate?

Apathetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Apathetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
  • (2) Data also suggest that black dyads are represented more frequently in the positive categories, and white dyads are more likely to be categorized as "apathetic" or "hostile."
  • (3) Apathetic hyperthyroidism was first described in the medical literature by Lahey in 1931.
  • (4) the agitated type of involutional melancholy occurred twice as often in Canada as in Hungary, the apathetic cases were rarer in Canada, and the illness began earlier among Canadian women.
  • (5) Given that less than half of the Union's electorate are likely to vote at all, those figures suggest an overwhelming majority of Europeans are either apathetic towards the ongoing project of a common borderless European home or actively hostile.
  • (6) Among the psychosyndromes least well known to be associated with an endocrinopathy is apathetic hyperthyroidism.
  • (7) Several factors account for the relative ineffectiveness of family planning: some women abandon contraceptive methods for illogical reasons, especially after a traumatic event in their lives; sex education is still often insufficient; ignorance causes excessive fear of possible or imagined effects of contraceptives; part of the population is simply apathetic and irresponsible; finally, the availability of abortion may be a factor, although it is the worst method of birth control.
  • (8) Thatcher's children, selfish, materialist, apathetic?
  • (9) This generation, the younger generation, are supposed to apathetic, they are supposed to be not interested in politics and yet they are flocking out there to our meetings.
  • (10) The drug was clinically well tolerated in all except one animal that became apathetic and refused to eat.
  • (11) They tended to be solitary, unresponsive, inert or apathetic, and were not much liked by others.
  • (12) Trump has energised and galvanised the apathetic and apolitical.
  • (13) Asked for their opinions on Labour and politics in general, the most common response is apathetic: "I don't do politics, mate.
  • (14) By application of descriptive methods, integrating operationally estimated findings with clinically-impressively estimated "interactional atmosphere", we defined eight types of phenomenological constellations of persistent alterations ("residual-types") of functional disorders: "depletion syndrome", "apathetic-paranoid syndrome (resp.
  • (15) A 32-year-old woman was admitted because of an apathetic state.
  • (16) We here describe a case of apathetic thyrotoxicosis in a 16-year-old female subject who presented with a range of non-specific symptoms.
  • (17) The Church of England has launched a strongly worded attack on Britain’s political culture, criticising politicians of all parties for offering only “sterile arguments” that are likely to make voters more apathetic and cynical in the runup to the general election.
  • (18) Far from being apathetic, natural selection cares very much about these mutations.
  • (19) You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them.
  • (20) A 68-year-old man with a history of organic heart disease and marked weight loss was found to have apathetic thyrotoxicosis and hypercalcemia.

Dispassionate


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
  • (a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was not very active politically, but "current affairs", as he more dispassionately called it, had come to fascinate him and he left university with "a hunger to be involved in the game in some way," Ganesh says.
  • (2) Any reduction of emissions contributes to the prevention of dangerous climate change and as a developed country the Netherlands should take the lead in this.” After a legal campaign that took two and a half years to get to its first hearing in April, normally dispassionate lawyers were visibly moved by the judge’s words.
  • (3) Céspedes has the potential to be a dynamic player and from a dispassionate viewpoint, it’s probably a no-brainer of a trade.
  • (4) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
  • (5) Only once during the trial did a crack appear in his dispassionate facade.
  • (6) In the first case, we have to be dispassionate even when the issues arouse great passion.
  • (7) Prompt, dispassionate physician counseling, wider provision of National Health Service facilities, and uniform service in all districts would also be beneficial.
  • (8) Real hope and opportunity, if it is to arise at all, will do so from a raw and dispassionate assessment of the scale of the challenge faced by the global community."
  • (9) Even more seriously, in the short-term, voters believe that the Smith commission’s proposals on fresh powers – the so-called “vow” – are a letdown and not, as Labour claims and dispassionate analysis confirms, a big devolutionary package.
  • (10) In the absence of dispassionate investigation, proper legal process, or even official regret, the suspicion of state complicity remains.
  • (11) Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
  • (12) From now on, Griffith-Jones wrote, for the abuse to remain legal, Mau Mau suspects must be beaten mainly on their upper body, "vulnerable parts of the body should not be struck, particularly the spleen, liver or kidneys", and it was important that "those who administer violence … should remain collected, balanced and dispassionate".
  • (13) I can't find the words to describe dispassionately what I have gone through but I remember another reason why I gave up on New Labour, on my country.
  • (14) The rather neutral ground of college allows for relatively dispassionate examination of traditional moral teaching and peer group values.
  • (15) Comments concerning a report on the consequences of induced abortion which cite the author's book, ''Legal Abortion: the English Experience'' focus on the author's desire to provide a dispassionate survey on an emotionally charged issue.
  • (16) We’re an independent company and we are simply doing what economists do and we are impartial and dispassionate in the way that we conduct our economic analysis.” Morrison said the report proved that the Coalition’s slow and steady approach on negative gearing was the right one.
  • (17) Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest.
  • (18) It is hoped this new medical technology will satisfy the desire of Mackenzie for "comparative evaluation of medical remedies and different modes of treatment of disease by the lynx-eyed scrutiny of dispassionate analysis."
  • (19) On all sides the fixation on the “genocide” issue is likely to cloud any dispassionate assessment of the verdict, as if crimes against humanity were not horrific enough.
  • (20) The dominant belief that all politicians are contemptible, promoted not just by public entertainers like Hislop but by rightwing libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes among many others in the media, is not grounded in fact, is profoundly pessimistic, and is far from being a dispassionate depiction of the world.