Apathy vs. Dispassionate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Apathy and Dispassionate
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Apathy
Apathy is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion.
Dispassionate
Not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial
She dealt with life's disasters in a calm, dispassionate way
Apathy
Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
Dispassionate
Not influenced by strong feelings or emotions; impartial
A dispassionate reporter.
Apathy
Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.
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Dispassionate
Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice
Apathy
Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
Dispassionate
Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Wise and dispassionate men.
Apathy
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 calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course.
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
Dispassionate
Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view.
Apathy
An absence of emotion or enthusiasm
Dispassionate
Unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice;
A journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact
Apathy
The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
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