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						List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 
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						SYNONYMS:
						
							indifferent, unconcerned, incurious, detached, uninterested.   
						
						 
						 These adjectives mean marked by an absence of interest.
						 
						
						
							Indifferent 
						
						applies most broadly; it can suggest lack of partiality, bias, or preference or
						a lack of feeling one way or another: The universe isn't hostile. It's 
						indifferent.
						 
						
							Unconcerned 
						
						implies not only a lack of interest but also a lack of solicitude, feeling,
						concern, or care:  unconcerned about his friend's plight.
						 
						
							Incurious 
						
						stresses absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity:
						strangely incurious about the political upheaval surrounding her.
						 
						
							Detached 
						
						suggests absence of involvement together with an impersonal point of view: His
						maturity appears in the detached clear-sightedness with which he could observe
						his own character.
						 
						
							Uninterested 
						
						merely denotes lack of interest: an uninterested spectator; an uninterested
						glance.
						 
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