Definition of Indifference

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

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

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

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

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel

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

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

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

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

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

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emile M. Cioran

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

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac

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

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard

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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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