apatheia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia). Doublet of apathy.

Noun

apatheia (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) A state of mind in Stoic philosophy in which one is free from emotional disturbance; the freedom from all passions.
    • 2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:
      But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?

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