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apatheism
 n.— «Apatheism—a disinclination to care all that much about one’s own , and an even stronger disinclination to care about other people’s—may or may not be new in the world, but its flowering, particularly in ostensibly pious America, is worth getting excited about.» —“Let It Be” by Rauch Atlantic May 1, 2003. (: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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