Image:Challenge_vs_skill.jpg|Apathy in terms of challenge level and skill level. Clickable. History Apathy etymologically derives from the Greek απάθεια (apatheia), a term used by the Stoics to signify indifference for what one isn't responsible for (that's, according to their philosophy, all things exterior, one being only responsible of his representations and judgments). Another way of understanding the way that the Stoics saw apathy was as "the extinction… (More on Apathy)