Apathy

Ap·a·thy

Apathy

n.

pl. Apathies

  1. 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.
    A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
    According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
    — Fleming.