apātija

See also: apatija and apātijā

Latvian

Etymology

Via some other European language, ultimately borrowed 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”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

apātija f (4th declension)

  1. apathy (mental condition characterized by lack of will, activity, interest; indifference)
    apātijas stāvoklis ― state of apathy
    apātijas pārņēmts cilvēks ― a person taken by apathy
    viņas skatiens pauda nogurumu un apātiju ― her look expressed fatigue and apathy
    Vītols juta, ka sirdi kā drēgnums apskauj drūma apātija; negribējās neko izdomāt līdz galam ― Vītols felt that bleak apathy embraced (his) heart like cold weather; he didn't feel like figuring out anything
    es iegrimu apātijā; jo vairāk atplauka daba un vasarīgāks kļuva gaiss, jo melnāka man šķita nākotne ― I fell into apathy; the more nature blossomed, the more it became summer, the blacker the future seemed to me

Declension

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