0 behaviour that shows no interest or energy and shows that someone is unwilling to take action, especially over something important:
widespread apathy among students
voter apathy
1 lack of interest, or the attitude of not caring resulting from it:
There is a growing sense of apathy among teens and a feeling that there are no opportunities, he said.
The problem of boredom as a health care issue has been subsumed under research on other complaints such as depression, apathy, or fatigue.
Whether it would in fact lead people to such passivity and apathy is another question, more psychological than purely rational or logical.
How ironic that it was the war that was likely to dispel at least some of this apathy, whether real or presumed.
Furthermore, he can still avoid apathy and maintain that his life has some importance in the scheme of things.
Such apathy is often understood in terms of neurological damage to the brain, and in particular to the frontal areas concerned with motivation and personality.
Under the contrived experimental circumstances, the observed apathy and nonintervention is to be fully expected of a well-adapted organism.
To this list one might well add apathy, disrespect, recklessness, insensitivity, and dishonesty.
Other clinical impairments seen include apathy, lack of spontaneity, perseveration and mild dysphasia.