What's the difference between apathetic and insouciant?

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.

Insouciant


Definition:

  • (a.) Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
  • (2) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
  • (3) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
  • (4) Equally popular was the stylish Borsalino, starring Belmondo and Alain Delon as insouciant gangsters in 1930s Marseilles.
  • (5) At the same time, it is important for our enjoyment of Bake Off that the insouciance does not go all the way (the inquisitive camera, for example, captures Ian’s set jaw, betraying his iron will).
  • (6) The minutes of the policy convention show DSD representatives insouciant about sharing metadata on Australians – so long as it had been hoovered up “unintentionally” they were happy to store and to disclose it without obtaining a warrant.
  • (7) But Putin appeared insouciant in the face of the western manoeuvres.
  • (8) It would defy every norm that is America.” Candidates were not only insouciant about human rights abroad; they also felt comfortable doubting rights enshrined by US law.
  • (9) DeepMind is excited to have joined forces with Google,” it says, with an unapologetic insouciance not normally seen with the search giant’s other acquisitions.
  • (10) No one assumes that New Zealand will have an impact in South Africa, yet insouciance is an asset when other sides are so overwrought.
  • (11) I have such pale legs and they never burn!” I insouciantly declared to onlookers, a mere 12 hours before I began convulsing, shaking, sweating and finding myself unable to walk for three days.
  • (12) For this tale of a young waitress with an insouciant approach to haircuts, garden gnomes, and life, Craig Lucas supplies the book, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyse the music and lyrics.
  • (13) Townsfolk were also displaying a distinct insouciance to pledges by green activists to hold a day of protest there and trash a field of GM crops at the town's Rothamsted research station.
  • (14) He was insouciant, dapper, elegant, somehow intensely English – though O'Toole himself was an Irishman and proud of it – and also outrageously sexy.
  • (15) It is a look that matches his backbench style: unflappable but not insouciant; with authority but no menace and, it once seemed, palpably relieved to be off the front line.
  • (16) The former chief secretary to the treasury and shadow everything produces her lanyard with dazzling insouciance and continues to fish-dance her way in.
  • (17) At the time I remember thinking about those pictures in terms of horror films, trying to imagine the context in which people might so casually abuse power and so insouciantly photograph their own crimes.
  • (18) In a display of Gallic insouciance, the French identified themselves as both the most arrogant and least arrogant.
  • (19) No rush, lads, you whistle an insouciant trill and scratch the old jacksie.
  • (20) Rooney plundered two goals in two minutes with almost insouciant ease and could have had a hat-trick before the hour came up, as the defensive solidity Liverpool had shown in the first half evaporated in front of the Stretford End.