Apathy
early 17th century: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathēs ‘without feeling’, from a- ‘without’ + pathos ‘suffering’.
wiktionary
From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια(apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής(apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ-(a-, “not”) + πάθος(páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”).
etymonline
apathy (n.)
c. 1600, "freedom from suffering, passionless existence," from French apathie (16c.), from Latin apathia, from Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassibility, want of sensation," from apathes "without feeling, without suffering or having suffered," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer"). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is by 1733.
