Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Apathy is complete lack of emotion or motivation. Apathy can be directed towards a person, activity, or object. Apathy is a common reaction to stress where it manifests as learned helplessness. Certain drugs are known to cause apathy. Some people see ascetics and saints as attaining apathy in some level, although this view is debated by most theologians, who usually prefer to call it detachment. See also Psychology This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.