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Apathetic Feel Showing Feeling Emotion Interest Response Victory

word apathetic
definition (1) Showing or feeling little or no emotion. (2) Having no interest.
eg_sentence His apathetic response to the victory bewildered his friends.
explanation Apathy, or lack of emotion, is central to Albert Camus's famous novel The Stranger, in which the main character's indifference toward almost everything, including his mother's death, results in his imprisonment. We feel little sympathy for him, and may even feel antipathy, or dislike. The American voter is often called apathetic; of all the industrial democracies, only in America does half the adult population fail to vote in major elections. As you can see, apathetic isn't the opposite of pathetic, even though the a- that it begins with means “not” or “without.
IPA ˌæpəˈθɛtɪk

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