Indifference definition

ĭn-dĭfər-əns, -dĭfrəns
The quality, state, or fact of being indifferent.
  • Lack of concern, interest, or feeling; apathy.
  • Lack of importance, meaning, or worth.
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The state or quality of being indifferent.
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The state of being indifferent.
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The definition of indifference is a lack of care, concern or interest.

An example of indifference is when you don't care or put effort into something.

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A lack of enthusiasm.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
indifference
Plural:
indifferences

Origin of indifference

  • From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia

    From Wiktionary

Indifference Sentence Examples

  • Under that facade of indifference beats a heart primed for breaking.

  • Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, "Is it worth while noticing trifles?"

  • She was silent, and not only less pretty than at the ball, but only redeemed from plainness by her look of gentle indifference to everything around.

  • After the fall of Struensee (the warrant for whose arrest he signed with indifference), for the last six-and-twenty years of his reign, he was only nominally king.

  • It is true that even by the most thorough-going allegorists the literal sense of Scripture was not openly and entirely disregarded; but the very fact that the study of Hebrew was never more than exceptional, and so early ceased to be cultivated at all, is eloquent of indifference to the original literal sense, and the very principle of the many meanings inherent in the sacred writings was hostile to sound interpretation; greater importance was attached to the " deeper " or " hidden " senses, i.e.

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