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单词 indifferency
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indifferencyn.

/ɪnˈdɪfərənsi/
Forms: Also 1500s indyff-, 1500s–1600s indeff-.
Etymology: < Latin indifferentia (Gellius), noun of quality < indifferent-em : see indifferent adj.1 and -ency suffix.
The quality of being indifferent.
I. Of a person or thing, in relation to two or more persons, things, courses, etc.
1. Absence of bias, prejudice, or favour for one side rather than another; impartiality, equity, fairness. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > impartiality
indifference1533
indifferencya1535
unpartiality1569
impartiality1611
unpassionateness1611
unpartialness1622
adiaphoracy1623
impartialness1643
even-handedness1820
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xii. sig. P.iiiiv Than shal they fal from indifferency, & maintaine false matters of theyr frendes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxvijv Not as he, which requireth of you fauor, parcialitie, or bearyng, but egall right, frendly indifferencie, and trew..iustice.
a1571 J. Jewel Expos. 2 Thess. 122 in Wks. (1611) Marke then, and witnesse of my indifferencie..that I follow not affection, but deale vprightly.
1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 131 How can sinceritie and indifferencie bee expected of them, that are aforehand bound by Oath to the Pope?
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 11 Mark here the equity and indifferency of the Son of God both to Jew and to barbarian.
1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. vi. viii. 504 Where the judge is determined by lot at the time of the trial, and for that turn only..the advantage..is indifferency.
1832 J. Austin Province Jurispr. iii. 78 Few of them will pursue it with this requisite ‘indifferency’ or impartiality.
2. Neutrality of feeling; hence, Absence of active feeling or interest; unconcern, apathy; = indifference n.1 2. Const. to, towards. Now rare.
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 > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun]
mediocrity1588
indifferency1608
indifference1690
indifferentness1727
betweenity1760
commonness1779
passableness1779
flavourlessness1865
middlingness1866
normalcy1893
passable1908
1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iii. v. 56 How long will you halt in this indifferencie?
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 297 That you are in Æquilibrio, in an evennesse, in an indifferency, in an equanimity, whether ye die this night or no.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 176 Their former love of the word hath turned to indifferency.
1689 Howe in H. Rogers Life (1863) ix. 253 In matters of religion Charles II was sufficiently known to be a prince of great indifferency.
1715 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 54 The state of things did not bear an indifferency and neutrality.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 240 I had a perfect indifferency for the whole Sex.
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism i. 7 To rest in a profligate indifferency to religion.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vii. 269 Even the least semblance of indifferency towards the decisions of law.
3. Indetermination of the will; freedom of choice; an equal power to take either of two courses. Obsolete.
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
a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 147 But we can not do so here in England. For our indifferency is taken away by a law.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 144 The indifferency of the inclination in exercise is bound by Gods decree.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) x. 117 This Indifferency to do or not to do, cannot be the true Notion of Liberty.
1714 Locke's Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi, in Wks. I. 120 The operative Powers..remaining equally able to operate, or to forbear operating after, as before the Decree of the Will, are in a State, which, if one pleases, may be call'd Indifferency.
4. Of a word: Capability of being applied to different things; neutral or equivocal sense, ambiguity. Now rare or Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun]
ambiguitya1325
doublenessa1513
ambiguousness1542
double meaning1551
indifferency1596
equivocacy1646
equivocalness1647
ambilogy1656
greyness1663
mealy-mouthedness1697
amphilogy1731
equivocality1735
grey1822
double-edgedness1901
ambivalence1912
ambivalency1912
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. xii. 497 To make aduantage of the indifferencie of the word.
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 68 The seeming indifferency in the English tongue is necessitated in the Greeke, Δοκιμαζέτω.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. v. 18/2 The Usage..seems to have been Accommodated unto that Indifferency of Signification in the Terms.
1881 J. C. Dolan in Penn. Sch. Jrnl. XXX. 88 Because of this indifferency, the term will has here been used in its most popular sense.
5. Of a place: Neutrality in point of advantage.
a. Absence of advantage for either of two opposing sides. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > neutrality of battlefield
indifferency1603
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > convenience or advantageousness of position > neutrality in point of advantage
indifferency1603
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 592 The Rhodians accounted the Turks as good as vanquished, for that they being so many in number, and in a place of such indifferencie, had not yet preuailed.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 848 The Christians fought at great disaduantage, both for the number of men, and indifferencie of the place.
b. Equal accessibility for all parties concerned.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > [noun] > equal accessibility for all
indifferencya1647
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > coming into the presence of or contact with > quality of being accessible > for all
indifferencya1647
a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. ii. 193 An Officer of Armes was ioyned in commissyon to consyder the safety and indifferency of theyre place of meetinge.
6. The condition of being neither good nor bad, pleasant nor unpleasant. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 75 Though before it were a Thing of Delight or Indifferency.
1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxi. 149 'Tis a mistake to think, that Men cannot change the displeasingness, or indifferency, that is in actions, into pleasure and desire.
II. Of two or more things, in their relation to each other or to a person, etc.
7. Want of difference in nature or character; substantial equality or equivalence. Now rare.
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
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun]
comparison1340
evennessa1398
evenhead?a1400
equipollencec1430
pareil?c1450
equalityc1460
comparation1483
egalness1526
equalness1530
equivalency1535
eveningc1540
equivalencea1542
indifferency1569
owelty1579
coequality1583
mateship1593
equal1596
adequation1605
parity1609
parility1610
matchableness1611
equipollency1623
equiparance1624
egality1628
equipage1633
comparitya1635
omniparity1635
peership1641
exequation1656
equipoise1658
equipotency1658
countervalue1660
adequateness1664
commensurablenessa1676
peerage1681
égalité1794
peerdom1891
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 131 For indifferencye and equalitie of both [buyer and seller]..was ordeyned that [etc.].
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 Tho more have perished by violent Deaths in the Day; yet in natural Dissolutions both Times may hold an Indifferency, at least but contingent Inequality.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 27 If the assertor of the indifferency of truth and falsehood in their own natures, attempt to justify his position.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) x. 251 You have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism, at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions.
8.
a. Absence of difference in respect of consequence, effect, significance, or importance; the fact of its making no difference, or of being of no consequence or importance either way.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > either way
indifferency1564
1564 Briefe Exam. *** If the indifferencie of these orders hange vpon the vse: then we must loke wherevnto they are ordeyned.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. iv. 103 The choice is left to our owne discretion, except a principall bond of some higher dutie remoue the indifferencie that such things haue in themselues.
1637 W. Laud Speech in Starr-chamber 54 The Indifferency of the standing of the Holy Table either way.
1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles xiii. 88 Ceremonies..how indifferent soever they are in themselves, when they are once commanded, the indifferency ceases.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel II. cxviii. 331 I still believe..in the indifferency of customs, so long as they do not make void the Divine word.
b. esp. in phrase of indifferency, that is indifferent, unessential, immaterial, unimportant.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > unessential
indifferent1563
of indifferency1564
unfundamental1638
dispensable1649
recrementitious1650
immaterial1698
recrementory1822
unessential1841
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 300 So far is it off that these missal vestures are now things of indifferency.
1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 781 It is a matter of meere indifferency.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 56 Haire long or short, thick or thin, more or lesse, is a matter of indifferency.
a1673 T. Horton in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1872) III. Ps. lxiii. 6 As a place of indifferency; that is, there as well as anywhere besides.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. iv. 124 It is not a mere matter of speculation, and therefore not a point of indifferency.
1863 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ (ed. 3) 127 Religion was no matter of indifferency to him.
c. A matter of indifference; a non-essential.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > unessential
indifferency1643
non-essential1806
unessential1828
indifferentiala1834
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §26 I would not perish upon a Ceremony, Politick points, or indifferency . View more context for this quotation
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. xvi. 36 If it be an Imperfection, it is to be removed... If an Indifferency, it is indifferent whether you remove it or not.
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