(n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
(2) Apathy may still be the enemy for the remain campaign, and although most of our participants, after an evening spent discussing the referendum, said they were likely to vote, they were far from certain about it.
(3) Partial and total results under the 6 factors of the questionaire: General anxiety and regression, anxiety about separation, anxiety about sleeping, eating disturbances, agressiveness against authority, apathy and isolation.
(4) The best results were observed in hebephrenic forms and depressive syndroms during the illness; in these indications, carpipramine exerts a clear psychomotor stimulating activity which is useful in decreasing indifference, apathy and ideomotor slowness.
(5) Apathy is defined as diminished motivation not attributable to diminished level of consciousness, cognitive impairment, or emotional distress.
(6) For several reasons, including public apathy, the role of interest groups, and experience with other social insurance programs, it seems likely that basic structural shifts will not occur in the near future.
(7) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(8) In the mid-20th century, the customary political apathy of youth did not matter overmuch.
(9) The risk factors for incontinence were consciousness disturbance, urinary urgency, impaired mobility and dementia, and those for severe leakage were apathy, loss of urinary sensation, dementia and impaired mobility.
(10) Politicians need to deal with the problem of voter apathy in the face of statistics showing only one in 10 young people firmly intends to vote, David Blunkett , the former home secretary, has warned.
(11) Because of that, in infants with muscular hypotonia, growth arrest, constipation and apathy the possibility of idiopathic hypercalcaemia, apart from rickets, should be considered.
(12) Clinical manifestations of all three cases were severe headaches; bilateral pyramidal, pseudobulbar, cerebellar, and frontal release signs; gait disturbances; euphoria, or apathy; epileptic seizures; and dementia.
(13) Despite the handicaps of shortage of staff, lack of a broad health insurance program, and the apathy of most of the medical profession, we managed to establish a Cancer Registry that is achieving near completeness in registration of cancers at certain sites.
(14) Severe enteric colibacillosis, characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, dehydration, apathy, hypothermia, and inability to stand, was produced in seven of eight newborn, colostrum-fed calves from nonvaccinated dams after oral challenge of calves with 10(11) viable cells of Escherichia coli strain B44.
(15) Apathy, carelessness, and indifference may even increase as a by-product of technology, unless curbed by moral, ethical and legal constraints.
(16) The poll will go ahead despite fears that the turnout in the middle of August will set a new apathy record for an election.
(17) A distinction is made between cases where the gamble with death is merely consequential (i.e., arising from ignorance, apathy, indifference) and cases where it is the very essence of the act.
(18) All were chronic patients with a symptomatic profile of apathy, lack of initiative but with the personality relatively well preserved in 56 patients.
(19) The lack of information has been an issue, as well as public apathy over the new post.
(20) This results were confirmed by factorial analysis which identified three distinct clusters of symptoms: the negative syndrome (affective flattening, alogia, abolition-apathy, and anhedonia-asociality), the disorganizative syndrome (positive formal thought disorder, and attentional impairment) and the positive syndrome (delusions and hallucinations).
(n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Example Sentences:
(1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(2) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(3) He continued: "There's quite a lot of complacency going on and self-delusion going on.
(4) This posture of racially tinged complacency underlies most of the frequent backlashes endured by western feminists.
(5) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(6) "One [of the dangers] is complacency, generated by a few quarters of good economic data.
(7) And if he wins substantially, it is quite possible that he will feel comfortable and complacent and focus again on his nationalist agenda rather than the economy.” At the standing bar, Tani, a striking figure in his dark-blue kimono and a trilby, puts down his drink, pauses, and recalls the time he spent working abroad.
(8) His approach, however, will be challenged by Labour, which this week accused the chancellor of "breathtaking complacency".
(9) But we shouldn’t be complacent – less than half of GCSE students are taking a foreign language, and more need to carry their languages forward into their careers and lives for the UK to really profit on the world stage - both culturally and economically.
(10) Perhaps it was a little bit of complacency, a sense that their mere presence on the pitch would be sufficient to beat Newcastle, but collectively they rarely matched Klopp’s dynamism in the technical area.
(11) The barrier to Rio is high and Pavey is not complacent: to ensure automatic qualification she will have to finish first in the trials and reach the 10,000m Olympic qualifying standard of 32min 15sec.
(12) But let's abandon any complacency that such injustice could not happen again.
(13) Applications and limitations of the findings to the problem of complacency in automated systems are discussed.
(14) The director of public prosecutions issued a timely warning against complacency this week.
(15) A recent survey of 1,002 people in Wales has supported these earlier findings, but found additionally that discriminatory and complacent attitudes on AIDS or towards people with the 'AIDS virus' are held by a significant proportion of the population.
(16) Mike Penning, the road safety minister, said: "I am not complacent about road safety even though Britain has some of the safest roads in the world.
(17) Meanwhile, an influential cross-party Westminster committee of MPs and peers has accused the UK government's national security council of complacency for failing to carry out any assessment about the impact Scotland's independence would have on the UK's defence and the future of Trident.
(18) He wrote on Twitter on Saturday that complacency had allowed racism to prevail and reiterated those comments in a column for the Sun on Sunday.
(19) "But even if domestic violence remains a priority for the Crown Prosecution Service, there remains the wider issue of complacency."
(20) That is in large part why Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor and chairman of the cross-party pro-UK campaign Better Together, warned in a Guardian interview last week that complacency was his campaign's greatest enemy.