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  1. 1. n. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Passableness; mediocrity. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. unbiased impartial unconcern Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. 2. Passableness; mediocrity. 3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. Sir T. More. 4. Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs. Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. Addison. Syn. -- Carelessness; negligence; unconcern; apathy; insensibility; coldness; lukewarmness. Source: webster
  10. 10. n:100 n. unbiased impartial unconcern Source: ecdict

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