apathy
AP-uh-theenounMeaning lack of interest, feeling or concern
Memory hook A + PATH: WITHOUT feeling. The class garden is wilting in the sun, but everyone just shrugs and walks past: nobody cares. That is apathy.
The team’s apathy was plain: no one even came to the last practice.
In context The club failed not because anyone opposed it but because of apathy; hardly anyone cared enough to come to meetings or to vote.
Similar indifference, unconcern, listlessness, detachment
Opposite concern, enthusiasm, interest
From Greek apatheia, “freedom from feeling”: a- (without) + pathos (feeling).