{
    "term": "indifference",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a lack of interest, feeling or reaction towards somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "indifference (to somebody/something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "his total indifference to what people thought of him"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What she said is **a matter of complete indifference** to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their father treated them with indifference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an indifference to the needs of others"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Constable's landscapes met with indifference when they were first exhibited."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He feigned indifference to criticism of his work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She showed total indifference to his fate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ellis spoke with a casual indifference that he did not feel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She adopted an attitude of supreme indifference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have an air of studied indifference to the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They regard the change in corporate culture with a certain indifference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The president is resigned to public indifference to his latest initiative."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["complete", "supreme", "total"],
                "verb + indifference": ["feel", "demonstrate", "display"],
                "preposition": [
                    "with an indifference",
                    "indifference  to",
                    "indifference  towards/​toward"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "an air of indifference",
                    "an attitude of indifference",
                    "a matter of indifference"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "lack of importance",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This cannot be regarded as a matter of indifference."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the fact of being average or not very good",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the indifference of the midfield players"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɪfrəns/",
                "audio": "in/indifference/indifference__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɪfrəns/",
                "audio": "in/indifference/indifference__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘being neither good nor bad’): from Latin indifferentia, from in- ‘not’ + different- ‘differing, deferring’ (from the verb differre)."
}