All 4 Uses
indifferent
in
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
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- And there was Rufus, swung from his father's indifference to his mother's sugary concern.†
p. 69.9 *indifference = without interest
- He was a friend and sometime dinner guest of Tom Weylin in spite of Weylin's indifference to religion.†
p. 183.1
- I dropped back into indifference.†
p. 200.9
- Everyone attended—field hands, house servants, even the indifferent Evan Fowler.†
p. 252.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(indifferent) without interestin various senses, including:
- unconcerned -- as in "She is indifferent to what is served to eat."
- unsympathetic -- as in "She is indifferent to his needs."
- not of good quality (which may imply average or poor quality depending upon context) -- as in "an indifferent performance"
- impartial -- as in "We need a judge who is indifferent."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)