# apathy

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈæ.pə.θi/ · frequency rank #20,555

## Definitions
1. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

## 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”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.

## Easily confused with
- **aptly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/apathy-vs-aptly)
- **Apache** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/apache-vs-apathy)
- **Agatha** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/agatha-vs-apathy)

## Common misspellings (9)
`aapthy`, `apahty`, `apathhy`, `apathyy`, `apatthy`, `apatyh`, `appathy`, `aptahy`, `paathy`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/apathy