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indifferentism|ɪnˈdɪfərəntɪz(ə)m|
[f. indifferent a. + -ism: cf. F. indifférentisme (Littré).]
1. A spirit of indifference professed and practised.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iv, Often, notwithstanding, was I blamed..for my so-called Hardness, my Indifferentism towards men. 1877Black Green Past. i, There are others who have educated themselves into a useful indifferentism or cynicism. 1879Howells L. Aroostook xxiii. 265 A cast⁓off accent of jaded indifferentism, just touched with displeasure. 1890Boldrewood Col. Reformer (1891) 6 These people either did not know..or, with the absurd indifferentism of Englishmen, did not care.
b. esp. The principle that differences of religious belief are of no importance; adiaphorism; absence of zeal or interest in religious matters.
1827Sack Let. in Pusey Hist. Enq. (1828) I. p. xiv, It originated with men very far removed from indifferentism. 1828Pusey Ibid. 59 His anxiety to promote Christian charity converted into indifferentism. 1840Milman Hist. Chr. II. 381 The public acts..of Constantine, show how the lofty eclectic indifferentism of the Emperor..gave place to the progressive influence of Christianity. 1845E. B. Barrett in Letters of R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 240 He has a certain latitudinarianism (not indifferentism) in his life and affections. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 59 The signs of a growing toleration or indifferentism meet him on every side.
2. Metaph. (See quot.)
1866Mansell in Contemp. Rev. I. 33 Hence arises a third form of philosophy, which, for want of a better name, we will call Indifferentism, as being a system in which the characteristic differences of mind and matter are supposed to disappear, being merged in something higher than both.
3. Biol. ‘Term originally applied to the condition of the sexual glands at the time of development, when parts of them are common to both sexes’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886). |