indifference

Etymology

From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia.

noun

  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.
  6. (philosophy) Self-identity defined through the negation of difference, non-difference.
    I call reason absolute reason, or reason insofar as it is conceived as the total indifference of the subjective and objective. 1801, FWJ Schelling, The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling, page 145

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