Reluctance vs Apathy - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between reluctance and apathy is that reluctance is unwillingness to do something while apathy is complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
reluctance
English
Noun
Unwillingness to do something.
Hesitancy in taking some action.
(physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
Derived terms
* reluctance motor
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apathy
Noun
(en-noun)
Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
* {{quote-book, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=2
citation
, passage=I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.}}
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