(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).
(1) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(2) Wimbledon said the world No1 Williams had been suffering from a viral illness and it was a sad and bizarre end to the American’s tournament, not to mention a worrying sight, seeing her hardly able to play.
(3) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(4) Calum MacLean, Grangemouth Petrochemicals chairman, says, “This is a hugely sad day for everyone at Grangemouth.
(5) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(6) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(7) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(8) Only at 3 days did total plasma volume of SAD rats show a modest reduction of about 16% (P less than 0.05 vs. sham-operated plus unoperated controls).
(9) These sad numbers show that more Washington spending, threats of higher taxes on small businesses, and excessive government regulations don't create a healthy environment for job growth," Boehner said.
(10) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(11) World Wildlife Fund Great Barrier Reef campaigner Richard Leck said it was a sad day for the reef and anyone who cared about its future.
(12) It is so sad, we don’t let her go out even if the weather is nice,” he says.
(13) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
(14) Half of the rats in each group had SAD surgery 1 week prior to study.
(15) There’s an overwhelming sadness among kids like that who have been kept there for a very long time.
(16) It is sadly slightly the territory we have inherited,” he said.
(17) In a statement the family said they were left "extremely sad and disappointed" by the verdicts: "We appreciate the work and effort over the years since events on Broadwater Farm that night in trying to bring people to justice.
(18) Moreover, no differences were found in abnormal lung function patients with and those without SAD in demographic, clinical, roentgenologic, and serologic features and results of pulmonary function tests.
(19) It is sad that the BBC chose to give Nick Griffin a platform.
(20) The only thing I'd say is that I know, from people who've told me firsthand, that sadly mixed marriages can be a bit conflicted on everyday issues.