indifference

Other forms of indifference

plural

indifferences·

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 indifference

What does indifference mean?

indifference means "unbiased impartial unconcern". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indifference?

indifference has 4 syllables: in-dif-fe-rence. The stress falls on "dif". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɪfɚəns/.

What is another word for indifference?

Close synonyms include emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, stolidity. 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 indifference a common word?

indifference is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with indifference?

1 word rhymes with indifference. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.