What are the opposite words for indifference?
Indifference is a lack of interest or concern for something. Its antonyms would be words such as interest, enthusiasm, passion, zeal, care, and attentiveness. When someone is interested or enthusiastic about something, they are showing the opposite of indifference. Passion is also an antonym as it refers to a strong liking or desire for something. Similarly, zeal and attentiveness connote an active interest and engagement with something. Care is another antonym, as it refers to the effort and attention given to something. In contrast, indifference can indicate apathy, neglect, or a lack of involvement.
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- perseverance
- attention
- thought
- energy
- love
- courtesy
- vigilance
- benevolence
- amazement
- weakness
- emotion
- life
- application
- enthusiasm
- surprise
- heed
- heat
- rage
- tenacity
- taste
- piety
- pity
- requirement
- regret
- sensation
- curiosity
- discrimination
- addiction
- adoration
- animation
- appetite
- astonishment
- avidity
- bias
- care
- comfort
- concentration
- constancy
- contrition
- craze
- cupidity
- dependence
- devotion
- diligence
- ear
- enterprise
- eye
- fanaticism
- fire
- get-up-and-go
- itch
- kindliness
- longing
- lookout
- love affair
- loyalty
- mental state
- obsession
- passion
- persistency
- point of view
- politesse
- reliance
- sensitiveness
- spirit
- sympathy
- transport
- vigil
- vitality
- will
- alacrity
- ambition
- appreciation
- ardor
- aspiration
- awareness
- bliss
- carefulness
- compassion
- compunction
- concern
- conscientiousness
- consolation
- cordiality
- delirium
- determination
- discretion
- earnestness
- ecstasy
- endurance
- exuberance
- fixedness
- flame
- force
- gentleness
- ginger
- goad
- greed
- gusto
- heart
- inclination
- industry
- initiative
- interest
- kindness
- labor
- lenience
- liveliness
- look
- madness
- mania
- movement
- observance
- observation
- outlook
- patience
- persistence
- rapture
- regard
- relish
- remorse
- scrupulousness
- sentiment
- stimulus
- stress
- tenderness
- thankfulness
- thirst
- tolerance
- traffic
- vim
- warmth
- watch
- zeal
- zest
- intense love
- strong fondness
- liveliness; promptness
- state of surprise
- strong desire for success
- liveliness; activity
- hard work
- goal, hope
- empathy
- surveillance
- carefulness, attention to detail
- aid, help
- tender feeling
- regret, sorrow
- relief, comfort
- friendliness, sociability
- strong desire
- fad, strong interest
- greed, strong desire
- intense desire to know, understand
- want, longing
- commitment; loyalty
- perseverance in carrying out action
- interestedness
- caution, judgment
- enthusiasm, anxiousness
- determination; seriousness
- bearing hardship; staying power
- person's spirit and vigor
- keen interest, excitement
- judgment, opinion
- overenthusiasm
- a state of mind, often strong
- excitement, enthusiasm
- animation, vigor
- lover; passion
- liking or taste for
- mental power, energy
- overwhelming desire for more
- great enthusiasm
- person's emotions
- anger, passion
- care, thought
- craving
- tendency, bent
- absence of feeling, interest
- attraction, curiosity
- compassion, generosity
- work, undertaking
- animation, spirit
- fondness, taste
- visual examination
- guard; place from which to guard
- love relationship
- faithfulness, dependability
- fixation, madness
- motion, activity
- attention to, knowledge of something
- attention, scrutiny
- strong emotion
- capacity, willingness to endure
- fondness, inclination
- diligence, hard work
- devotion, religiousness
- feeling of mercy toward another
- energy; flamboyance
- extreme anger
- extreme happiness and delight in something
- attention, look
- great appreciation of something
- guilty or bad conscience
- devotion to a sinless life
- sequence, course
- righteousness
- distinctive quality
- taste, flavor
- responsiveness; ability to feel
- emotion, belief
- something amazing; state of amazement
- close observation, following
- shared feeling
- inclination, preference
- diligence, stubbornness
- craving (especially for liquid)
- idea, concept
- coming and going
- very strong desire
- energy, enthusiasm
- energy, spirit
- defect, proneness
- strong want
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- perseverance
- attention
- thought
- energy
- love
- courtesy
- vigilance
- benevolence
- amazement
-
weakness
- faintness,
- inconstancy,
- invalidity,
- vitiation,
- inconstancies,
- chink armor,
- chink in armor,
- faintnesses,
- in constancies,
- in constancy,
- in decision,
- in decisions,
- in stability,
- in validity,
- in-constancies,
- in-constancy,
- in-decision,
- in-decisions,
- in-stabilities,
- in-stability,
- in-validities,
- invalidities,
- sore point,
- vitiations.
- emotion
- life
- application
- enthusiasm
-
surprise
- bombshell,
- suddenness,
- thunderbolt,
- Astoundment,
- epiphanies,
- astoundments,
- bombshells,
- curveball,
- curveballs,
- dis appointment,
- dis appointments,
- dis illusion,
- dis illusions,
- dis-appointment,
- dis-appointments,
- dis-illusion,
- dis-illusions,
- eurekas,
- eye-openers,
- eyeopener,
- in credulities,
- in credulity,
- mis calculation,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- precipitousnesses,
- re velation,
- re velations,
- re-velation,
- re-velations,
- suddennesses,
- sur prise,
- sur prises,
- sur-prise,
- sur-prises,
- un expected,
- un-expected,
- un-foreseen,
- unexpecteds,
- unforeseens.
- heed
- heat
-
rage
- hysteric,
- hysterics,
- INS,
- NOWS,
- wingdings,
- wingding,
- ex plosion,
- ex plosions,
- ex-plosion,
- in spot,
- in spots,
- in-spot,
- in-spots,
- in-thing,
- in-things,
- inspot,
- inspots,
- inthing,
- inthings,
- latest wrinkle,
- latest wrinkles,
- latests,
- up minute,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up the minute,
- up to minute,
- up to the minute,
- up-roar,
- up-roars,
- up-set,
- up-sets.
- tenacity
- taste
- piety
- pity
- requirement
- regret
- sensation
-
curiosity
- conversation piece,
- exoticism,
- interestingness,
- intrusiveness,
- meddlesomeness,
- officiousness,
- thirst for knowledge,
- exoticisms,
- searchings,
- bygones,
- by-gone,
- by gone,
- conversation pieces,
- inquiring mind,
- inquiring minds,
- inquiringness,
- inquiringnesses,
- interestingnesses,
- intrusivenesses,
- meddlesomenesses,
- mental acquisitiveness,
- mental acquisitivenesses,
- objet dart,
- officiousnesses,
- peculiar object,
- peculiar objects,
- pryings,
- singular object,
- snoopings,
- unusual object,
- unusual objects.
- discrimination
-
addiction
- jones,
- hang up,
- hangup,
- joneses,
- monkey back.
-
adoration
- idolization,
- Pash,
- Amore,
- amores,
- pashes,
- worshippings.
- animation
- appetite
- astonishment
- avidity
- bias
- care
- comfort
- concentration
-
constancy
- dependability,
- devotedness,
- staunchness,
- trustiness,
- trustworthiness,
- unchangeableness,
- abidingness,
- unfailingness,
- abidingnesses,
- dependabilities,
- devotednesses,
- re solutions,
- re-solution,
- re-solutions,
- staunchnesses,
- trustworthinesses,
- un changeableness,
- un changeablenesses,
- un failingness,
- un failingnesses,
- un-changeableness,
- un-changeablenesses,
- un-failingness,
- un-failingnesses,
- unchangeablenesses,
- unfailingnesses.
- contrition
- craze
- cupidity
- dependence
- devotion
- diligence
- ear
- enterprise
- eye
-
fanaticism
- arbitrariness,
- extremism,
- illiberality,
- immoderation,
- obsessiveness,
- willfulness,
- zealotry,
- Incorrigibility,
- illiberalities,
- zealotries,
- arbitrarinesses,
- in corrigibilities,
- in corrigibility,
- in-corrigibilities,
- in-corrigibility,
- incorrigibilities,
- obsessivenesses,
- un reasonableness,
- un reasonablenesses,
- un-reasonableness,
- un-reasonablenesses,
- willfulnesses.
- fire
-
get-up-and-go
- impellent,
- O's,
- Oes,
- Vitali,
- get up and go,
- impellents,
- o.
- itch
- kindliness
- longing
- lookout
-
love affair
- triangle,
- triangles,
- affair heart,
- affair of heart,
- affair of the heart,
- affair the heart,
- affaire de coeur,
- affaires de coeur,
- forbidden love,
- forbidden loves,
- illicit love,
- illicit loves,
- in fidelities,
- in fidelity,
- in-fidelities,
- in-fidelity,
- love-affair,
- romantic affair,
- romantic affairs,
- sexual relationship outside marriage,
- sexual relationship outside of marriage.
- loyalty
- mental state
- obsession
- passion
- persistency
- point of view
- politesse
- reliance
- sensitiveness
- spirit
- sympathy
- transport
- vigil
- vitality
- will
- alacrity
- ambition
- appreciation
- ardor
- aspiration
- awareness
- bliss
- carefulness
- compassion
- compunction
- concern
- conscientiousness
- consolation
- cordiality
- delirium
-
determination
- indomitability,
- single-mindedness,
- stiff upper lip,
- singlemindedness,
- de termination,
- de terminations,
- de-termination,
- de-terminations,
- firm ness,
- firm-ness,
- firm-nesses,
- in dependence,
- in-dependence,
- in-dependences,
- indomitabilities,
- re solve,
- re solves,
- re-solve,
- re-solves,
- self confidence,
- selfconfidence,
- single mindedness,
- single mindednesses,
- single-mindednesses,
- singlemindednesses,
- stiff upper lips.
- discretion
- earnestness
- ecstasy
- endurance
- exuberance
- fixedness
- flame
- force
- gentleness
- ginger
- goad
- greed
- gusto
- heart
- inclination
- industry
- initiative
- interest
- kindness
- labor
- lenience
-
liveliness
- zing.
- look
- madness
- mania
-
movement
- evolution,
- mobilization,
- motility,
- transition,
- Movements,
- Translatings,
- stirrings,
- wanderings,
- changings,
- dis placement,
- dis placements,
- dis-placement,
- dis-placements,
- evolvings,
- journeyings,
- motilities,
- movablenesses,
- roamings,
- trans feral,
- trans-feral,
- trans-planting,
- transplantings,
- un rest,
- un rests,
- un-rest,
- un-rests,
- under taking,
- under-taking,
- under-takings.
- observance
-
observation
- Mouthfuls,
- Re-search,
- watchings,
- ex amination,
- ex aminations,
- ex-aminations,
- in formation,
- in formations,
- in-formation,
- in-formations,
- monitorings,
- re cognizing,
- re flection,
- re flections,
- re search,
- re searches,
- re-cognizing,
- re-flection,
- re-flections,
- recognizings,
- say so,
- super visions,
- super-vision,
- super-visions.
- outlook
- patience
- persistence
- rapture
- regard
- relish
- remorse
- scrupulousness
- sentiment
-
stimulus
- goad.
-
stress
- apprehensiveness,
- stress,
- tautness,
- tenseness,
- tensity,
- tightness,
- overextensions,
- apprehensivenesses,
- dis quiet,
- dis quiets,
- dis quietude,
- dis quietudes,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quiets,
- dis-quietude,
- dis-quietudes,
- ex tension,
- ex-tension,
- ex-tensions,
- mis trust,
- mis trusts,
- mis-trust,
- nervous tension,
- nervous tensions,
- over extension,
- over extensions,
- over-extension,
- over-extensions,
- pro traction,
- pro tractions,
- pro-traction,
- pro-tractions,
- tautnesses,
- tensenesses,
- tensities,
- tightnesses.
- tenderness
- thankfulness
- thirst
- tolerance
- traffic
- vim
- warmth
- watch
- zeal
- zest
- intense love
- strong fondness
- liveliness; promptness
- state of surprise
- strong desire for success
- liveliness; activity
- hard work
- goal, hope
-
empathy
- community of interests,
- in sight,
- community of interest,
- being on same wavelength,
- being same wavelength,
- being there for someone,
- community interest,
- community interests,
- cottoning to,
- cottoning tos,
- good vibration,
- good vibrations,
- hitting it offs,
- in sights,
- in-sight,
- in-sights,
- picking ons,
- picking up on,
- picking up ons,
- picking upon,
- re cognition,
- re cognitions,
- re-cognition.
- surveillance
-
carefulness, attention to detail
- care.
- aid, help
- tender feeling
- regret, sorrow
- relief, comfort
- friendliness, sociability
- strong desire
- fad, strong interest
- greed, strong desire
- intense desire to know, understand
- want, longing
- commitment; loyalty
- perseverance in carrying out action
- interestedness
- caution, judgment
- enthusiasm, anxiousness
- determination; seriousness
- bearing hardship; staying power
- person's spirit and vigor
- keen interest, excitement
-
judgment, opinion
- eye.
- overenthusiasm
- a state of mind, often strong
- excitement, enthusiasm
-
animation, vigor
- fire.
- lover; passion
- liking or taste for
- mental power, energy
- overwhelming desire for more
- great enthusiasm
- person's emotions
-
anger, passion
- heat.
-
care, thought
- heed.
- craving
- tendency, bent
- absence of feeling, interest
- attraction, curiosity
- compassion, generosity
- work, undertaking
-
animation, spirit
- life.
- fondness, taste
-
visual examination
- look.
- guard; place from which to guard
- love relationship
- faithfulness, dependability
- fixation, madness
- motion, activity
- attention to, knowledge of something
- attention, scrutiny
- strong emotion
- capacity, willingness to endure
- fondness, inclination
- diligence, hard work
- devotion, religiousness
-
feeling of mercy toward another
- pity.
- energy; flamboyance
-
extreme anger
- rage.
- extreme happiness and delight in something
- attention, look
- great appreciation of something
- guilty or bad conscience
- devotion to a sinless life
-
sequence, course
- run.
- righteousness
- distinctive quality
-
taste, flavor
- zest.
- responsiveness; ability to feel
- emotion, belief
- something amazing; state of amazement
- close observation, following
- shared feeling
- inclination, preference
- diligence, stubbornness
- craving (especially for liquid)
- idea, concept
- coming and going
-
very strong desire
- urge.
- energy, enthusiasm
- energy, spirit
- defect, proneness
-
strong want
- yen.
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
split down the middle
- Antonyms:
- combine, join.
