Word: 'apathy' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'apathy' • Extended Annotations
circa 1600, "freedom from suffering, passionless existence"
from Latin apathia, Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassibility, want of sensation"
from apathēs "without feeling, without suffering"
a- "without" + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering"
originally a positive quality, a Stoic value
A state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions (suffering).
According to the Stoics, apatheia was the quality that characterized the sage.
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |