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APATHY
Definition of APATHY
noun
Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, 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”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,569)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, APATHY · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
APATHY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
APATHY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AAHPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found APATHY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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