indifference

From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/, /ɪnˈdɪf.ə.ɹəns/

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• Hyphenation: in‧dif‧fer‧ence

indifference (countable and uncountable, plural indifferences)

1. The state of being indifferent.
2. Unbiased impartiality.
3. Unemotional apathy.
   • His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human.
4. A lack of enthusiasm.
5. Unconcerned nonchalance.
   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity‎:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.