apathy

Etymology

From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”). English a- + -pathy.

noun

1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
   I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm. 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 2, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 2012-04-03