Definition of Indifference

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Indifference

The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

Passableness; mediocrity.

Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.

Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.

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Indifference Quotations

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel

Indifference Translations

indifference in Dutch is flegma
indifference in Norwegian is likegyldighet
indifference in Spanish is indiferencia
indifference in Swedish is likgiltighet

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