apathy
lack of feeling or concern
Roots
Other words with the path root
- antipathy: strong dislike
- empathy: ability to understand another person's feelings
- pathetic: arousing pity; weak or inadequate
- pathological: caused by or involving disease; compulsive or unhealthy
- sympathy: shared feeling or compassion
Path carries feeling; a- removes it. Apathy is the dangerous blank where feeling should be.
His apathy worried the tutor because he had stopped asking what could change.