indifferencen.¹

/ɪnˈdɪfərəns/

Forms: Also 1500s -aunce.

Etymology: formed as indifferency n.; see -ence suffix. Compare French indifférence (1629 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).

The quality of being indifferent.

†1. The making of no difference between conflicting parties; impartiality; = indifferency n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > impartiality

indifference1533

indifferencya1535

unpartiality1569

impartiality1611

unpassionateness1611

unpartialness1622

adiaphoracy1623

impartialness1643

even-handedness1820

1533 C. St. German Salem & Bizance xvii. f. lxvi He is..ferre fro suche indifference and equitie, as ought & muste be in the iuges.

1537 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 140 Trustyng in yor wysdomes and indifferaunces, and upon the fidelyte ye bere unto us.

1642 Declar. Lords & Com. 7 Nov. 3 Reasonable satisfaction shall be made unto them,..according to Justice and indifference.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) ix. 116 Thus I have set down the different Opinions in this point, with that true Indifference that I intend to observe on such other occasions.

1743 H. Fielding Ess. Conversat. in Misc. I. 134 The Gentlemen..are to be seated with as much seeming Indifference as possible, unless there be any present whose Degrees claim an undoubted Precedence.

2. Absence of feeling for or against; hence esp. Absence of care for or about a person or thing; want of zeal, interest, concern, or attention; unconcern, apathy. Const. to, towards.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > indifference > [noun]

carelessness1561

neutrality1561

indifferency1608

perfunctoriness1626

indifference1660

unconcernment1660

slightiness1662

unconcernedness1675

nonchalance1678

upsitting1680

equilibrium1685

inconcernedness1688

unconcernness1700

unconcern1711

indifferentness1727

Laodiceanism1774

facility1791

insouciance1799

aloofness1817

don't-carishness1821

pococurantism1823

don't-careism1834

don't-care-a-damnativeness1841

nonchalantness1878

casualness1882

disinterest1889

noncurance1904

uncaringness1930

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > other elements of scholastic philosophy

transcendent1581

haecceity1635

thisness1643

indifference1660

transcendental1668

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 3 Eratosthenes relates, that he..often carried to market Birds, or,..Piggs to sell, and managed his houshold affaires with the like in difference, insomuch as he is reported to have washed a Sow.

1711 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 26 Feb. (1965) I. 84 Your Indifference to me does not hinder me from thinking you capable of tendernesse.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. xi. 67 She behaved to him before Company with the highest Degree of Indifference .

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §2. 3 The human mind is often..in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 141 ‘Perhaps never, if such be my father's pleasure’, continued Conachar, with assumed indifference.

1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 8 Her indifference was towards her parents, and most who crossed her daily path.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xiv. 260 A look of complete indifference to his own external appearance.

1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlv. 405 The feeling towards Athens was rather indifference than hatred.

a. Indetermination of the will (cf. indifferency n. 3), or of a body to rest or motion; neutrality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > [noun]

freedomeOE

free will1340

arbitryc1374

advisementa1398

freedom of will?c1400

liberty?c1400

wilfulnessc1460

liberal arbitre?1483

contingencec1530

indifferencya1555

contingency1561

freedom of thought1591

self-willingness1591

volunt1611

voluntariness1643

uncommandedness1646

autexousy1678

volency1686

inconditionality1696

unconditionalitya1714

indifference1728

volition1738

vacancy1754

voluntarity1794

autonomy1803

unconditionalness1843

unconditionedness1854

1728 H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. 29 All bodies have such an indifference to rest, or motion, that if once at rest they remain so [etc.].

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 159 It will tear up the main foundation whereon they build their doctrine of indifference [of the will], namely, that without it there could be no demerit, and consequently no room for punishment.

1831 D. Lardner Hydrostatics vii. 124 A solid immersed in a liquid may have several distinct positions of equilibrium, instability, and indifference.

1886 W. Cuningham St. Austin iv. 128 The indifference of the human will, its perfect ability to choose this or that.

b. Psychology indifference point n. [translating German indifferenzpunkt] a position or value between two continua of experience, such as a temperature that is experienced as neither warm nor cold, or a feeling-value that is neither pleasant nor unpleasant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] > absence of definite stance > place

mid-world1844

indifference point1887

1887 A. Seth Hegelianism & Personality ii. 57 Schelling proceeds to define the Absolute as the indifference-point of subject and object.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xv. 616 An ‘Indifference-point’; that is to say..a time which we tend to estimate as neither longer or shorter than it really is, and away from which, in both directions, errors increase their size.

1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 533/1 Indifference point,..the theoretical point at which neither of two contrasted sense or other qualities, which are supposed to depend on the same sort of stimulation, is experienced.

1938 R. S. Woodworth Exper. Psychol. xviii. 445 The ‘indifference point’, a phenomenon observed for many years in judgments of magnitude.

†4.

a. The quality of being indifferent, or neither decidedly good nor evil (cf. indifferency n. 6). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun]

mediocrity1588

indifferency1608

indifference1690

indifferentness1727

betweenity1760

commonness1779

passableness1779

flavourlessness1865

middlingness1866

normalcy1893

passable1908

1690–1 J. Tillotson Serm. (1728) I. 355 Conscience is no~thing else but the Judgment of a Man's own Mind concerning the Morality of his actions; that is, the Good or Evil, or Indifference of them.

b. ‘Passableness; mediocrity; as, indifference of quality’ (Webster, 1864).

5. Want of difference or distinction between things; = indifferency n. 7. doctrine of indifference: the doctrine (of certain 12th cent. philosophers) that universals are individuals considered in those respects in which they do not differ from other individuals of the same kind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun]

oneness?c1225

identity1545

indifferency1569

selfsameness1577

sameness1581

said1623

homogeneity1625

indistinction1644

indifference1656

sameliness1662

identicalness1677

undistinguishableness1727

indistinguishableness1731

self-identity1866

dittoship1869

identicality1875

indistinguishability1885

sameyness1977

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 20 He asserted Indifference, that there is no difference of things.

1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 194 Each one therefore..is willing through these daies, to keep himself from indifference of meats.

1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 558 We cannot work ourselves into his [Abelard's] passionate feelings against this doctrine of Indifference.

6. The fact of not mattering or making no difference; unimportance; esp. in phrase a matter of indifference; also, an instance of this; a thing or matter of no essential importance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > unessential

indifference1644

immateriality1784

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 37 Those neighboring differences, or rather indifferences, are what I speak of, whether in some point of doctrine or of discipline.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 71 What are, as cunningly as commonly, called..innocent indifferences and orderli decences.

1708 G. Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 79 The Necessity or Indifference of observing the Mosaic Rites.

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 39 This would have been a circumstance of great indifference to the experienced sportsman.

1885 Yorks. Post 17 July 4/2 If the possession of the Zulfikar Pass is a matter of such utter indifference to the Ameer [etc.].

Categories »

7. Magnetism. indifference point, point of indifference: ‘the middle zone of a magnet where the attractive powers of the two ends neutralise each other’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1886).

8. indifference curve n. (occasionally line of indifference) Economics a graph, the co-ordinates of which are the quantities of alternative goods and services that would leave the consumer indifferent in choosing between them because he judges them of equal value. Also indifference map n. (see quot. 1972²).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > economic maps or graphs

indifference curve1881

indifference map1934

Phillips curve1959

1881 F. Y. Edgeworth Math. Psychics i. 21 It is evident that X will step only on one side of a certain line, the line of indifference, as it might be called.

1894 F. Y. Edgeworth in Econ. Jrnl. 4 426 A curve of constant advantage, or ‘indifference-curve’..representing states for which the advantage to England is no greater than if there had been no trade.

1934 J. R. Hicks in Economica I. 53 If there are only two sorts of goods, this scale of preferences can be represented by a diagram of indifference curves... We can take as an ‘index’ of utility any variable which has the same value all along an indifference curve, and which increases as we proceed from one indifference curve to a higher one.

1934 J. R. Hicks in Economica I. 61 Take any point P on a given indifference-map, and draw the tangent at P to the indifference-curve that passes through P.

1949 Mind 58 197 On a graph, the line which connects these collections is the contour line, or indifference-curve, on which all collections are iso-satisfactory.

1965 Economist 7 Aug. 533/1 The analysis deals with indifference curves, contract curves, equi-product curves, and so on.

1969 R. Blackburn in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 169 The economic assumption of profit maximization is validated by the theory that business decisions only reflect the needs (‘utility curve’ or ‘indifference curve’) of the sovereign consumer.

1971 A. S. Schwier tr. V. F. D. Pareto Man. Pol. Econ. iii. 119 Professor F. Y. Edgeworth..assumed the existence of utility..and deduced the indifference curves from it... I consider the indifference curves as given, and deduce from them all that is necessary for the theory of equilibrium.

1972 C. Giles et al. Understanding Econ. viii. 97 An alternative analysis of consumer behaviour is known as indifference curve analysis.

1972 C. Giles et al. Understanding Econ. viii. 99 An indifference map represents a series of indifference curves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	indifference
释义	indifferencen.¹ /ɪnˈdɪfərəns/ Forms: Also 1500s -aunce. Etymology: formed as indifferency n.; see -ence suffix. Compare French indifférence (1629 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). The quality of being indifferent. †1. The making of no difference between conflicting parties; impartiality; = indifferency n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > impartiality indifference1533 indifferencya1535 unpartiality1569 impartiality1611 unpassionateness1611 unpartialness1622 adiaphoracy1623 impartialness1643 even-handedness1820 1533 C. St. German Salem & Bizance xvii. f. lxvi He is..ferre fro suche indifference and equitie, as ought & muste be in the iuges. 1537 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 140 Trustyng in yor wysdomes and indifferaunces, and upon the fidelyte ye bere unto us. 1642 Declar. Lords & Com. 7 Nov. 3 Reasonable satisfaction shall be made unto them,..according to Justice and indifference. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) ix. 116 Thus I have set down the different Opinions in this point, with that true Indifference that I intend to observe on such other occasions. 1743 H. Fielding Ess. Conversat. in Misc. I. 134 The Gentlemen..are to be seated with as much seeming Indifference as possible, unless there be any present whose Degrees claim an undoubted Precedence. 2. Absence of feeling for or against; hence esp. Absence of care for or about a person or thing; want of zeal, interest, concern, or attention; unconcern, apathy. Const. to, towards. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [noun] carelessness1561 neutrality1561 indifferency1608 perfunctoriness1626 indifference1660 unconcernment1660 slightiness1662 unconcernedness1675 nonchalance1678 upsitting1680 equilibrium1685 inconcernedness1688 unconcernness1700 unconcern1711 indifferentness1727 Laodiceanism1774 facility1791 insouciance1799 aloofness1817 don't-carishness1821 pococurantism1823 don't-careism1834 don't-care-a-damnativeness1841 nonchalantness1878 casualness1882 disinterest1889 noncurance1904 uncaringness1930 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > other elements of scholastic philosophy transcendent1581 haecceity1635 thisness1643 indifference1660 transcendental1668 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 3 Eratosthenes relates, that he..often carried to market Birds, or,..Piggs to sell, and managed his houshold affaires with the like in difference, insomuch as he is reported to have washed a Sow. 1711 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 26 Feb. (1965) I. 84 Your Indifference to me does not hinder me from thinking you capable of tendernesse. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. xi. 67 She behaved to him before Company with the highest Degree of Indifference . View more context for this quotation 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §2. 3 The human mind is often..in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 141 ‘Perhaps never, if such be my father's pleasure’, continued Conachar, with assumed indifference. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 8 Her indifference was towards her parents, and most who crossed her daily path. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xiv. 260 A look of complete indifference to his own external appearance. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlv. 405 The feeling towards Athens was rather indifference than hatred. 3. a. Indetermination of the will (cf. indifferency n. 3), or of a body to rest or motion; neutrality. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > [noun] freedomeOE free will1340 arbitryc1374 advisementa1398 freedom of will?c1400 liberty?c1400 wilfulnessc1460 liberal arbitre?1483 contingencec1530 indifferencya1555 contingency1561 freedom of thought1591 self-willingness1591 volunt1611 voluntariness1643 uncommandedness1646 autexousy1678 volency1686 inconditionality1696 unconditionalitya1714 indifference1728 volition1738 vacancy1754 voluntarity1794 autonomy1803 unconditionalness1843 unconditionedness1854 1728 H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. 29 All bodies have such an indifference to rest, or motion, that if once at rest they remain so [etc.]. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 159 It will tear up the main foundation whereon they build their doctrine of indifference [of the will], namely, that without it there could be no demerit, and consequently no room for punishment. 1831 D. Lardner Hydrostatics vii. 124 A solid immersed in a liquid may have several distinct positions of equilibrium, instability, and indifference. 1886 W. Cuningham St. Austin iv. 128 The indifference of the human will, its perfect ability to choose this or that. b. Psychology indifference point n. [translating German indifferenzpunkt] a position or value between two continua of experience, such as a temperature that is experienced as neither warm nor cold, or a feeling-value that is neither pleasant nor unpleasant. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] > absence of definite stance > place mid-world1844 indifference point1887 1887 A. Seth Hegelianism & Personality ii. 57 Schelling proceeds to define the Absolute as the indifference-point of subject and object. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xv. 616 An ‘Indifference-point’; that is to say..a time which we tend to estimate as neither longer or shorter than it really is, and away from which, in both directions, errors increase their size. 1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 533/1 Indifference point,..the theoretical point at which neither of two contrasted sense or other qualities, which are supposed to depend on the same sort of stimulation, is experienced. 1938 R. S. Woodworth Exper. Psychol. xviii. 445 The ‘indifference point’, a phenomenon observed for many years in judgments of magnitude. †4. a. The quality of being indifferent, or neither decidedly good nor evil (cf. indifferency n. 6). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] mediocrity1588 indifferency1608 indifference1690 indifferentness1727 betweenity1760 commonness1779 passableness1779 flavourlessness1865 middlingness1866 normalcy1893 passable1908 1690–1 J. Tillotson Serm. (1728) I. 355 Conscience is no~thing else but the Judgment of a Man's own Mind concerning the Morality of his actions; that is, the Good or Evil, or Indifference of them. b. ‘Passableness; mediocrity; as, indifference of quality’ (Webster, 1864). 5. Want of difference or distinction between things; = indifferency n. 7. doctrine of indifference: the doctrine (of certain 12th cent. philosophers) that universals are individuals considered in those respects in which they do not differ from other individuals of the same kind. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] oneness?c1225 identity1545 indifferency1569 selfsameness1577 sameness1581 said1623 homogeneity1625 indistinction1644 indifference1656 sameliness1662 identicalness1677 undistinguishableness1727 indistinguishableness1731 self-identity1866 dittoship1869 identicality1875 indistinguishability1885 sameyness1977 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 20 He asserted Indifference, that there is no difference of things. 1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 194 Each one therefore..is willing through these daies, to keep himself from indifference of meats. 1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 558 We cannot work ourselves into his [Abelard's] passionate feelings against this doctrine of Indifference. 6. The fact of not mattering or making no difference; unimportance; esp. in phrase a matter of indifference; also, an instance of this; a thing or matter of no essential importance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > unessential indifference1644 immateriality1784 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 37 Those neighboring differences, or rather indifferences, are what I speak of, whether in some point of doctrine or of discipline. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 71 What are, as cunningly as commonly, called..innocent indifferences and orderli decences. 1708 G. Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 79 The Necessity or Indifference of observing the Mosaic Rites. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 39 This would have been a circumstance of great indifference to the experienced sportsman. 1885 Yorks. Post 17 July 4/2 If the possession of the Zulfikar Pass is a matter of such utter indifference to the Ameer [etc.]. Categories » 7. Magnetism. indifference point, point of indifference: ‘the middle zone of a magnet where the attractive powers of the two ends neutralise each other’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1886). 8. indifference curve n. (occasionally line of indifference) Economics a graph, the co-ordinates of which are the quantities of alternative goods and services that would leave the consumer indifferent in choosing between them because he judges them of equal value. Also indifference map n. (see quot. 1972²). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > economic maps or graphs indifference curve1881 indifference map1934 Phillips curve1959 1881 F. Y. Edgeworth Math. Psychics i. 21 It is evident that X will step only on one side of a certain line, the line of indifference, as it might be called. 1894 F. Y. Edgeworth in Econ. Jrnl. 4 426 A curve of constant advantage, or ‘indifference-curve’..representing states for which the advantage to England is no greater than if there had been no trade. 1934 J. R. Hicks in Economica I. 53 If there are only two sorts of goods, this scale of preferences can be represented by a diagram of indifference curves... We can take as an ‘index’ of utility any variable which has the same value all along an indifference curve, and which increases as we proceed from one indifference curve to a higher one. 1934 J. R. Hicks in Economica I. 61 Take any point P on a given indifference-map, and draw the tangent at P to the indifference-curve that passes through P. 1949 Mind 58 197 On a graph, the line which connects these collections is the contour line, or indifference-curve, on which all collections are iso-satisfactory. 1965 Economist 7 Aug. 533/1 The analysis deals with indifference curves, contract curves, equi-product curves, and so on. 1969 R. Blackburn in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 169 The economic assumption of profit maximization is validated by the theory that business decisions only reflect the needs (‘utility curve’ or ‘indifference curve’) of the sovereign consumer. 1971 A. S. Schwier tr. V. F. D. Pareto Man. Pol. Econ. iii. 119 Professor F. Y. Edgeworth..assumed the existence of utility..and deduced the indifference curves from it... I consider the indifference curves as given, and deduce from them all that is necessary for the theory of equilibrium. 1972 C. Giles et al. Understanding Econ. viii. 97 An alternative analysis of consumer behaviour is known as indifference curve analysis. 1972 C. Giles et al. Understanding Econ. viii. 99 An indifference map represents a series of indifference curves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † indifferencen.² Etymology: apparently < in- prefix³ + difference n.¹, but perhaps erroneous; see indifferent adj.² Obsolete. rare. Difference. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] diversitya1340 difference1340 variancec1374 distancea1382 unlikenessa1387 variationc1405 discrepation?a1425 distinction1435 severaltyc1449 unlikelinessc1450 dissemblance1463 unlikelihood1483 alteritya1500 indifferencec1503 discrepancea1522 dissimilitude1532 differency1542 variety1552 discernment1570 disparitya1575 discrepancy1579 otherness1587 discernance1592 imparity1608 disanalogy1610 disresemblance1622 dislikeness1623 diff1624 inconformity1625 irresemblance1628 variousness1628 odds1642 disparation1654 aliety1656 disparility1656 disparateness1659 severality1664 nonconformity1672 unconformableness1712 dissimilarity1715 differentness1727 differ1787 allogeneitya1834 otherwiseness1890 otherliness1937 diversion- c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxvi ^v/2 The indifferences of theis obligacions. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxvij ^v/1 Theis ben the Indiffrence of y^e aquitauncis the furst is one party of payment. The ij. is of ful payment. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **2 The hunger of our vnsatiate humorists..readie to swallowe all draffe without indifference. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹1533n.²c1503
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