apathy

Other forms of apathy

plural

apathies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apathy

What does apathy mean?

apathy means "an absence of emotion or enthusiasm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apathy?

apathy has 3 syllables: ap-a-thy. The stress falls on "ap". In IPA it is /ˈæpəθi/.

What is another word for apathy?

Close synonyms include indifference, numbness, spiritlessness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apathy a common word?

apathy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.