In the dictionary D.N. Ushakova
INDIFFERENT, indifferent, indifferent; indifferent, indifferent, indifferent. 1. Filled with indifference, devoid of interest in anything. An indifferent view of things. | Insignificant, empty. They asked me a few indifferent questions and let me go. 2. Doesn't stand out from others, unremarkable, like everyone else. Even if there is only one interesting person, they are all just indifferent figures. 3. Not subject to any predominant influence, neutral (special). The indifferent belt of a magnet lies midway between its north and south poles. Indifferent balance.
Meaning
In this case, we do not take the content of the word, which everyone can vary according to their taste and preference, but rely solely on the dictionary. The latter gives us four meanings of the adjective “indifferent”, which is organically connected with the adverb that has fallen into the zone of attention.
- A person who does not exude interest in anyone or anything. For example, there are people who love ballet and football. And some people love both. But more often, some people love Baryshnikov, while others love Messi. Depending on what the audience watches more willingly, they are indifferent to either football or ballet matters. In other words, football spectators don’t care what happens in ballet, and vice versa.
- Characteristics of a person who expresses a certain attitude towards reality. He is indifferent to almost everything; this attitude will surprise few people today. For example, the hero of Camus’s novel “The Stranger” Meursault is a person indifferent to the world.
- This is what they say about a person who is indifferent to everyone. I remember the joke about Elusive Joe.
- When two objects are compared and one is no different from the other, it is said to be indifferent. For example, two socks in one package. In other words, indistinguishable against the general background.
This is the full meaning of the word “indifferent.”
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Synonyms
We don’t think that by considering the replacements, the reader will discover something new for himself, although anything is possible. So, the synonyms are as follows:
- Doesn't matter.
- Indifferent.
- Apathetic.
- Indifferent.
- Indifferent.
- Uninterested.
- Passively.
- Inert.
To one degree or another, these words replace the adverb “indifferent,” this is obvious. One could also add “boredom” here. But boredom is, in the words of I. Brodsky, an “active attitude” to existence, and disinterest presupposes passivity. Therefore, we did not include spiritual longing here, but the reader can use this kind of replacement if he needs it.
Indifference Indifferent
We live in a world where callousness and indifference are increasingly becoming the norm of human relations, and our souls, like a shell, are covered with scabs of dried suffering and resentment.
Robert James Waller. Bridges of Madison County
Indifference as a personality quality is a tendency to show indifference, disinterest,
selective lack of interest in someone or something at a given moment in time;
setting the mind to eliminate the excessive importance of someone or something. One day, a student who had studied less than the rest of the students asked the Teacher: “Teacher, I have this difficulty .
I noticed that often when I sell something, it doesn’t matter to me whether the buyer buys the product or not.
I enjoy the process, and it is this pleasure that is most important to me . - “Do you sell a lot?” “I have long been considered the best salesman in my company. And in the company where I worked before, I also sold more than anyone.” - “How long have you had this indifference to the result?” - “About six months. That’s why I came to you.” - “I can’t help you much. It seems that you have already comprehended the Path.”
Indifference is a vicious personality quality if it manifests itself in the form of indifference to people. Liz Burbo writes: “An indifferent person has no feelings, no special interest in anyone or anything; it does not vibrate; he is not touched by others; something happens, but his life does not change in any way. He simply does not pay any attention to those people and things that do not interest him. It is usually difficult to experience human indifference. You feel unnecessary, uninteresting, insignificant and, most importantly, unloved. Many people prefer to provoke the anger or bitterness of another person rather than suffer from his indifference. People with the injuries of REJECTED or Abandoned suffer the most from the indifference of their neighbors. Remember that every person has the right to decide that someone or something does not interest them. This does not necessarily mean dislike or disgust; it only means that a person has made a choice and that it is nothing more than a choice. And it is especially important to remember that behind an indifferent appearance there is often hidden a sensitive, vulnerable personality.”
Indifference is the other side of interest. This is interest turned inside out. Interest and indifference are two different poles. The path to interest comes from indifference and vice versa. The girl was indifferent to football, but in order for her beloved guy to be interested in her, she became interested in football. At first the interest was for show, but after attending several matches, I became imbued with a genuine interest in this game. When they broke up and there was no one to go to the stadium with, interest in football gradually faded away. The pendulum has swung towards indifference. This is how we go through life, swinging the pendulum from indifference to interest and vice versa.
Often, ignorance makes us indifferent. We are indifferent to everything that we do not know, about which we have no idea. The guy was indifferent to opera, but one day a girl dragged him to see La Traviata. The performance captivated him so much that the following months could easily be described as overcoming a sprint distance, where the start was indifference and the finish was interest in the opera.
If the pole of indifference predominates in a person, we consider him indifferent. This does not mean that he does not have any interests. A person is indifferent to others, to things, but he has a hobby - stamps. People will definitely call him indifferent because this quality of his personality is demonstrated in a convincing way. Few people know that stamps replace all other joys of life. He will starve, but will not sell his collection. People's assessments are indifferent to him. For him, only brands matter. In other words, a person is always at a certain point on the “Interest - Indifference” scale. A person is rarely immediately indifferent to all his connections with the inner and outer world. It is difficult to find a person who would be immediately indifferent to family, to friends, to things, to spiritual values. If the manifested side of a person (more than 50%) is associated with indifference, we call him indifferent. When a person approaches the “Indifference” pole, this can lead to apathy, depression and even death. Therefore, working with indifference is the path to the opposite pole. Indifference caves in as interest rears its head.
Indifference is insulted by indifference. They are put in one synonymous row, although they differ significantly from each other. Indifference is the loss of the ability to love something or someone, and indifference is a selective lack of interest in someone or something at a given moment in time. An indifferent person can love one woman and be indifferent to the rest. So they call him indifferent. Indifference turns into a vice when a person is indifferent to people, their fates, and he becomes fixated, for example, on some fanatical idea. Indifference combined with Evil is a hellish cocktail. However, under normal conditions one cannot equate the inability to love with a temporary lack of interest in someone or something. Therefore, indifference does not carry such a heavy negative meaning as indifference.
Many people see only evil in indifference. In fact, this is a deep misconception. Our wise body finds a niche of safety in indifference when it is necessary to hide from depression, stress, shock, fear and situations with high tension. Protecting ourselves from the outside world, we become indifferent, detached from what is happening around us. We are overcome by paralysis of emotions, mental activity decreases, and there are no desires or urges to act. We become inactive, taciturn, lacking initiative and alienated from the outside world. Indifference protects us from feelings of despair and loneliness.
In other words, in such situations, indifference comes to the throat of interest and rages in full force. A little more and interest will go to the trash heap. In what life situations does such an imbalance between interest and indifference occur? First of all, the main ally of indifference is stress. Loss of a job, conflict, retirement, death of a loved one, natural disasters, problems with the law and much more can become a factor in the exaltation of indifference. Life is so multifaceted that taking medications can be factors in the growth of indifference. You can swallow sleeping pills, birth control pills, valerian, heart medications, antibiotics and become indifferent to everything. Alcoholism, drug addiction, chronic diseases, lack of realization of creative abilities, and old age also do not contribute to the growth of interest in life. Gerontologists and psychiatrists regard the indifference of older people as a way of protecting themselves from strong experiences. What would happen to us if there were no indifference? As a result of a strong shock, we spend a colossal amount of energy. The nervous system, entering a state of indifference, seems to press the brakes in order to restore wasted energy. Otherwise, we would face life-threatening nervous exhaustion. Another thing is that you cannot remain in a state of indifference for a long time. Sustained indifference to oneself stops personal growth and leads to degradation and ossification of the soul. There is only one way out here - to awaken interest. You need to push away from the pole of “indifference” and move towards the pole of “interest”.
In a pair of interest and indifference, both sides are equally important. For example, you brought your daughter to the figure skating section. The girl became interested in this sport after she saw the performances of figure skaters on TV. From the pole of indifference to figure skating, she rushed to the pole of interest in the hope of becoming the new Olympic champion. Years of hard training pass. The most complex elements are worked out to the point of automation. The girl makes it to the Olympic team. The significance of the upcoming performance, the interest in winning a gold medal limits its strength. Previously, her interest prompted her to take action and overcome difficulties. Now interest becomes her main obstacle. Success and Olympic gold depend on how much she reduces the importance of the upcoming performance and the importance of the opinions of coaches and television viewers. Interest prevents you from performing the program as in training – professionally, “automatically”. To do this, the girl must be in a state of indifference. There is strength in indifference
. Indifference unconsciously increases strength. It cannot be worked out in training. It must be born naturally - in unity with the mind. There is a saying in the Indian language: “Interest makes kings, but indifference makes emperors.” The girl will become the empress of figure skating only when she is able to naturally enter a state of indifference.
A child once asked his dad: “You carry the heaviest loads day after day, but you don’t get tired. What's your secret? The father looked calmly at his son and said “indifferent.” And he was right. A boxer who intends to win knows that if he thinks about how and where to hit, what consequences the fight may lead to, he will most likely lose the fight. Its strength lies in indifference, and the subconscious will do its job. Interest will make him “wooden” and inhibited, indifference will make him fast and unpredictable. He, like a wasp, will sting the enemy and will certainly win.
When a person cannot be hooked into importance or manipulated, then we are talking about an indifferent person. He cannot be led astray, because he is indifferent to obstacles. A weak person makes problems out of obstacles. An indifferent person has no problem because he is indifferent to the obstacle and therefore it disappears.
Indifference does not argue. The arguer does not defend his point of view, but his importance. This is his weakness. He is trying to prove something to someone, not understanding the absurdity of his intention. An indifferent person will not prove anything to anyone, make excuses or object. Even when the whole world tries to insult him for his indifference, he will say: “Your words are also indifferent to me.” While a person attaches importance to thoughts: “I am not loved or appreciated. I'm being treated unfairly. I don’t deserve this,” he is weak. As soon as a person eliminates the excessive importance that he attaches to himself and the objects of the external world, as soon as he becomes indifferent to people's rumors, he becomes strong. Indifference is true strength. Others tear their belly button to maintain their “coolness”, but still do not evoke respect and a sense of strength. When a person has no interest in holding, possessing, grabbing, tearing, then in the eyes of the outside world he will see respect, significance and charm. But he won't care.
Who teaches indifference? The teacher of indifference is interest. By realizing interests, we suppress indifference. And only when we reach the peak of realizing our interests do we revive indifference. Having known indifference, we learn what interest is. Then, as the parable says, we comprehend the Way.
Indifference is the fruit of our mind. It has nothing to do with the soul. When a person falls into a state of indifference after a shock situation, the mind blocks our feelings and emotions. And when we return to normal reactions to situations in the outside world, again the mind gives the green light for this. If indifference is a consequence of reason, then indifference is a consequence of “paralysis” of the soul. We can be partial and at the same time indifferent to pleasures. Indifference presupposes a volitional effort of denial, refusal, detachment from someone or something. A person may be partial to alcohol, but his mind forbids him to even think about it. As long as the mind is strong, a person will suppress the “beautiful impulses of the soul” and will be indifferent to alcohol. A man sees a luxury car at a car dealership. The soul sang: “Buy it. Cool car". But the mind says: “Calm down. Walk past and don’t twitch.” If he has already developed the practice of controlling his emotions, he passes by with indifference.
Indifference denies interest in personal life, in the family, in the work team, in the cultural and political life of the region, country and world. For example, a woman notices an interesting man. She develops a certain interest in him that goes beyond indifference. She doesn't love, she's not in love, she's just not indifferent. However, her mind whispers to her: “You have a husband and two children. Family is more valuable." If reason triumphs over lust, the woman will respond with indifference to all his verbal and non-verbal signals. Indifference cannot exist without its opposite. A person may show interest, but he does not care who will be right in family relationships or who won the elections, with what promises and slogans, etc.
Often people see indifference behind the high concentration of a scientist’s mind on any problem. At night, at home, the astronomer watched the starry sky. Meanwhile, a thief broke into the house. In the morning, having discovered the loss, the astronomer reported to the police. The thief was detained. During interrogation, he claimed that there was no one in the house at the time of the theft. To more accurately qualify the crime - theft or robbery - the investigator called an astronomer. - Where were you at the time of the crime? - At home. “But the thief claims that you were not at home.” — The thief focused on what is valuable to him. I am on what is important to me. I was "in the sky." He was "in action." We were in the same room, but we never saw each other.
Petr Kovalev 2013 Other articles by the author: https://www.podskazki.info/karta-statej/
The flip side of success
Western civilization has long been about efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, when a person is in a corporation in the broad sense of the word, he is indifferent to many things. This is fine. When deadlines are constantly pressing, there is a lot of work. The human psyche sweeps away the unnecessary and focuses on the main thing. I don’t even have the strength to sympathize with my parents. In the 19th century, the hero of our time was Pechorin, and in the 21st century it was Meursault. Is there a way out? Certainly! Understand the relativity of corporate values. And most importantly, understand that money is not everything.
Meaning of the word indifferent
Examples of the use of the word indifferent in literature.
To be honest, nature takes its toll, but Abramovich doesn’t get much pleasure, since the mare doesn’t care about his advances, she doesn’t care whether he can speak or not.
James, angry at Canada, painted a map of the West Coast of America so that the possessions of the Kingdom of Alaska should extend to Fort Ross and San Francisco inclusive, as was once established by the great Russians, and south of the bay, in Monterey, speech should sound Spanish, and what state will own that land - it makes no difference: where they speak Spanish, they should look not so much to Moscow as to San Salvarsan.
Meanwhile, Ananiy Yakovlev inflamed the mayor with a reminder of some of his old sins before the master during land surveying: having gained nothing by this in the eyes of Cheglov, for whom the question of money is completely indifferent, Ananiy introduced a sharp complication into his own drama with his quarrel with the mayor.
I wasn't interested in how many children were born in Annan, and I couldn't care less if they stopped being born altogether and all of Annan died out!
There would be enough air for my lungs, and whether it was Arabian or Lappish is completely indifferent to me.
Artaxerxes considered it dangerous to be indifferent to the impending threat and let the denunciation fall on deaf ears, but it seemed even more dangerous to him to believe the informer without any evidence.
The majority, including Atreus, were ultimately indifferent to him.
“Ah, Ragimov,” Baranovsky somehow recalled indifferently and added: “No, I can’t.”
If you send not an image of a benzene molecule on a plane, but its code in linear form, in the form of sequential signals, then it doesn’t matter from which place on the benzene ring you start the description - any will do.
From then on, they were always close, throughout the war, which even somewhat leveled their status: Akhmet, unexpectedly for many, turned out to be a talented and inventive field commander, and not a coward at all. For Beslan, however, this was completely indifferent - Akhmet was the only one for him. a truly dear person on earth. Now he is gone - and Beslan is left completely alone.
When good friends praise a gifted person, he will often, out of politeness and benevolence, express joy, although in reality he does not care.
She looked pleadingly at the veterinarian’s sunken, muddy eye, deeply sunk under the convex brow ridge, and this eye passed over her indifferently, measuring her from the old faded scarf on her head to the generously manured galoshes on her bare feet, and then thin, flat, like pancakes, no younger as the forty-five-year-old lips moved slightly: “Anything is possible.”
Have seventy years of Satan’s fight against God, the horrors of the massacre committed in Russia by fanatical Christ-sellers, turned us into voiceless, cowardly self-lovers, indifferent to our own salvation, the good of the people and the fate of the Fatherland?
I can’t recognize him in his shell, and I don’t care who he is: Ball or maybe Pasic.
And for me it makes no difference: to serve with the bourgeoisie or with the proletarian, with the whites, with the reds, with the blacks, with the greens.
Source: Maxim Moshkov library
