a. [f. APATHY, after PATHETIC.] Of, or pertaining to, apathy; insensible to suffering or emotion generally; unemotional; indifferent to what is calculated to move the feelings or excite attention.
1744. Harris, Three Treat, 328 (T.). I am not to be Apathetic, like a Statue.
1861. Sat. Rev., 23 Nov., 539/2. It lays down propositions to which we give a sort of apathetic assent.
1863. Fawcett, Pol. Econ., II. ii. 131. A people so apathetic to gain.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., xii. 138. He wept himself into an apathetic tranquillity.
