Complete Definition of "apathetic"

English

Etymology
See Apathy.

Pronunciation
IPA: WEAE /æp.��θ�t.ɪk/

Adjective
en-adj

  1. void|Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
  2. Can also refer to Apatheism, a portmanteau expression of atheism and apathy, also known as pragmatic or practical atheism, a subset of atheism (when atheism is defined as lack of belief in deities, rather than specific disbelief in deities). An apatheist is someone who is not interested in accepting or denying any claims that God, or any other supernatural being, exists or does not exist. In other words, an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of God as neither meaningful nor relevant to human affairs.

See also
apathetical

Translations
trans-top|void of feeling
Albanian: t+|sq|apatik|xs=Albanian
Croatian: t-|hr|apateti�an
Dutch: t-|nl|apathisch
German: t+|de|apathisch
Japanese: ���� (mukand� na)
trans-mid
Russian: t+|ru|апа�и�н�й|m|sc=Cyrl
Spanish: apatía f
Swedish: apatisk
trans-bottom

References
R:1913

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