What's the difference between apathy and pathos?

Apathy


Definition:

  • (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).

Pathos


Definition:

  • (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patho-anatomic findings in the liver and the causes of death are discussed in detail.
  • (2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (3) Organ explant culture models offer several significant advantages for studies of patho-physiologic mechanisms like cell injury, secretion, differentiation and structure development.
  • (4) In the (patho)-physiological range the three instruments may provide suitable results for the clinician.
  • (5) The relevant literature is reviewed and patho-physiological mechanisms of mirror reversal are discussed.
  • (6) The patho-anatomic picture and isolation of toxoplasma strains from the brain of dead sheep or their foetuses which had the antibodies in the blood before death -- all this demonstrated the occurrence of congenital infection.
  • (7) An improved understanding of the patho-physiological and biochemical changes that occur in shock states has led to new and innovative pharmacologic approaches to shock reversal.
  • (8) We used the patho-physiologic classification and divided the patients in the groups of preeclampsia and chronic hypertension.
  • (9) Review of the literature on the role of Helicobacter pylori (HP) in the patho- and morphogenesis of chronic gastritis (CG) type B, gastric ulcer (GU) and duodenal ulcer (DU) is presented.
  • (10) The patho-anatomical details of bone and soft tissues including the orbit and paranasal sinuses are well demonstrated.
  • (11) Studies demonstrating in some patients interactions between LAC and either humoral factors with important functions in the (patho-) physiology of thrombosis, endothelial cells or platelets strongly suggest that LAC represents autoantibodies with pathogenic significance.
  • (12) A patho-causal connection between the anomaly and the tuberculosis of the skin cannot be excluded, because this may arise easier in an area of disturbed blood supply.
  • (13) The movie is filled with visual effects, car chases, fights, a party that descends into drug-fuelled paranoia and moments of true pathos.
  • (14) Remarks on the patho-etiology, symptoms and treatment of this rare entity entailing a truly surgical emergence.
  • (15) As regards education, an approach from the point of view of pathology is essential for the time being in transmitting the understanding of processes of disease, based on morbid-anatomical and patho-biological findings.
  • (16) There is reason to believe that the degree of area stenosis calculated from frequency shift and predicted normal values gives a more true interpretation of functional stenosis than angiography, while the latter might be superior for evaluating vascular patho-anatomy, giving information also about intrathoracic and intracranial vessels, which also is important for evaluating patients with TIA and related symptoms.
  • (17) The key problems of the atherosclerosis patho- and morphogenesis in the light of the development of N. N. Anichkov's ideas are discussed.
  • (18) Setting out with the theory of glomerulonephritis from Volhard and Fahr (1914) and the fundamental patho-anatomical examinations on this subject by Theodor Fahr (1925, 1934) the actual problems of glomerulonephritis are described.
  • (19) The patho- and etiogenetically different processes are likely to underlie such heterogeneity.
  • (20) On the basis of its course and clinical and patho-anatomical features Ph1-CML looks like an atypical chronic myeloid leukemia.