apathy

lack of feeling or concern

Roots

  • a- / an-: not, without, or lacking
  • path: feeling or suffering

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.

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