indifference
indifference is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Passableness; mediocrity.
- 2.Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. Sir T. More.
- 3.Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs. Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. Addison.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- against
- alacrity
- alienate
- alienation
- all
- aloof
- anaphrodisia
- anaphrodisiac
- animosity
- anorexia
- anorexy
- antaphrodisiac
- anything
- apathy
- arms
- aught
- aversation
- averseness
- backwardness
- bad
- bear
- bitterness
- but
- care
- careless
- cold
- coldness
- conscience
- cool
- could
- cucumber
- delicacy
- demur
- desire
- disaffected
- discord
- disdain
- disinclination
- dislike
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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