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How to pronounce indifference in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms apathy, numbness, spiritlessness
Type of passiveness, passivity
Derivation indifferent
Type Words
Synonyms emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality
Type of apathy
Type Words
Synonyms nonchalance, unconcern
Type of carefreeness
Derivation indifferent
Type Words
Type of unconcern
Has types withdrawal, detachment, distance, aloofness
Derivation indifferent

Examples of indifference

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Generally, however, the consumer response has been one of resigned indifference.
From the time.com
Two decades earlier, she too had been angered by the indifference of the school.
From the time.com
The crowd has gotten crankier in the face of the brash indifference to its fury.
From the time.com
Stifled by indifference and inertia, their wounds splinter when tragedy strikes.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
I sit mesmerised as she stretches, yawns and regards us with bored indifference.
From the couriermail.com.au
He should now be given a cold shower of indifference from the lords of the game.
From the usatoday.com
However, consumers'apparent indifference to the royal warrants has surprised us.
From the guardian.co.uk
A single worker drunk on gin is generally a matter of indifference to the state.
From the washingtonpost.com
Unwarranted overconfidence could lead to indifference and diminish your efficacy.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • Unbiased impartial unconcern
  • Emotionlessness: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
  • Apathy: the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
  • Nonchalance: the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern
  • (indifferent) apathetic: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"
  • (indifferent) deaf(p): (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed; "deaf to her warnings"
  • (indifferent) immaterial: (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him"
  • (indifferent) inert: having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"
  • (indifferent) characterized by a lack of partiality; "a properly indifferent jury"; "an unbiasgoted account of her family problems"