If you are indifferent, you don’t care much about something and have no strong opinion about it. You feel neither for it nor against it.
It comes from Latin “indifferens,” meaning “not different” or “showing no preference,” from “in-” (not) and “differre” (to differ). This sense of ‘no preference’ became the idea of not caring.
Being indifferent is like your feelings are on mute—nothing about the situation seems special enough to react to. The word hints that everything looks the same to you, so why bother choosing? In stories, characters who are indifferent can be more chilling than villains, because they simply don’t care what happens.
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