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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

apathy noun
  • lack of feeling or emotion; impassiveness
  • lack of interest or concern; indifference

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Apatheia

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.

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
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artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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