(n.) The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
(n.) Passableness; mediocrity.
(n.) Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
(n.) Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
(2) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
(3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(5) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(7) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
(8) The Tip Deflection Test involved securing the lead at 45 degrees at the indifferent electrode and applying a force to deflect the tip 5 mm.
(9) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
(10) I watched about 90 shows in three weeks, with an unfavourable ratio of good to bad to indifferent.
(11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
(12) In 20 patients a water-soluble contrast medium (Urovison for infusion 30%, 500 ml) was injected after addition of indifferent infusion solutions, or the contrast medium was mixed with the ascitic fluid remaining in the cavity after abdominal puncture of patients with ascites.
(13) When the initial-link reinforcement rate was lower than the terminal-link rate, preference converged toward indifference.
(14) In this study was tested the prediction that approach-oriented wrestlers should perform better than indifferent- and avoidance-oriented ones.
(15) On a macro level, a party that is already thoroughly militarized and corporatized – and largely indifferent to Main Street whenever it poses a conflict with Wall Street – offers little alternative to the other party that already celebrates that.
(16) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
(17) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
(18) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(19) 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.
(20) In general, the combination of quinolone antibiotics with other drugs tested against staphylococci, enterococci, and anaerobic species has shown indifference.
Nuance
Definition:
(n.) A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(2) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(3) But he thinks the issue of parenting is more nuanced than the government has portrayed it.
(4) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(5) There is a degree of solidarity, but is has to be nuanced because even within families, you have this sense of jealousy, and the levelling concept.
(6) He is the one who had to transmit exactly what I had said to the referee and there are intricacies and nuance in the language where you have “Por qué” and “Porque”, and you have the word “negro” as it is used in the Spanish language and how it can be used in English.
(7) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
(8) That’s the danger of replacing the political discourse with a purely moralistic approach: politics allow for nuances and mistakes; morality doesn’t.
(9) When Abbott won the Lodge and confirmed he lacked the nuance to lead, Turnbull found a way to be part of the team while sending the signal to the public that things would be very different if only their wishes were fulfilled and it was he who had the top job.
(10) The success of Capote paved the way for bigger and more nuanced parts for Hoffman, his turn as the villain in Mission: Impossible III (2006) notwithstanding.
(11) Perhaps you must actually live in eastern Europe to appreciate the nuances.
(12) Important nuances of the operative technique as well as pre- and postoperative management are described.
(13) From time to time a more nuanced English voice could be heard in the debate.
(14) First, the issue of submissions, as with similar questions about gender and salary negotiations or gender and career management, is nuanced, complicated and as mediated by gendered expectations and behavior as anything else.
(15) Voters looking for further nuance might have been left a little underwhelmed, not least by the expectation that world-famous analytic philosophers tend not to rely on anything as touchy feely as intuition.
(16) The distinction of fine diagnostic nuances is quite helpful but requires well integrated epileptological and EEG experience.
(17) Investors are intensely focused on monetary policy worldwide, reacting dramatically to any nuance, and another bout of volatile trading is the last thing European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi needs.
(18) There is more scope for debate on Labour’s position on membership of the European Union and Nato, with Corbyn initially sounding sceptical about both but adopting a more nuanced position over the course of the leadership campaign.
(19) Because few individuals in the primary care practice of pediatrics have many patients with lead poisoning, it may be difficult to understand the nuances of management.
(20) But Clinton sought to distance herself from the populism of her two rivals, seeking to portray herself as a more nuanced but practical politician who was willing to see complexity where they saw simplicity.