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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.

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Narrower term 4

Aloofness 76% connected

State of being aloof.

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Detachment 76% connected

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Withdrawal 76% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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Broader term 4

Apathy 76% connected

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…

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Passiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

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Passivity 76% connected

Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.

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Unconcern 76% connected

Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.

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Derivationally related 6

Indifferent 74% connected

Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without signif…

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Indifferent 74% connected

Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without signif…

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Synonym 7

Apathy 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Impassivity 92% connected

The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nonchalance 92% connected

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Numbness 92% connected

The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

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Phlegm 92% connected

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

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Stolidity 92% connected

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unconcern 92% connected

Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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