apathete
English edit
Etymology edit
From apathy, apathetic, on the pattern of æsthete.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæpəθiːt/
Noun edit
apathete (plural apathetes)
- An apathetic person; one given to apathy.
- 1976, Christopher G. A. Bryant, Sociology in Action: A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist, Allen and Unwin, →ISBN, page 145, →ISBN:
- He does not condemn the apathete, indeed he recognises that the alienating character of most industrial and commercial work affects leisure too; […]
- 2007, Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psychogeography, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., →ISBN, page 42, →ISBN:
- I remember that afternoon in SoHo because it was on my first, conscious trip to New York; and even an experienced apathete such as myself – the shirker of the Taj Mahal, the dodger of the Alhambra – was still struck by how inappropriate this seemed.