Sacred blue is a literal English equivalent of the French phrase sacrebleu. Specifically, the word combines the adjectives sacre (sacred) and bleu (blue). The phrase nevertheless functions somewhat as a curse which translates more politely as my God! or zounds!.
apathy - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm. 1  feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; she had a feeling of euphoria; he had terrible feelings of guilt; I disliked him and the feeling was mutual.
Although the word apathy was first used in 1594 and is derived from the Greek á¼ÏÎ¬Î¸ÎµÎ¹Î± (apatheia), from á¼ÏÎ¬Î¸Î·Ï (apathÄs, without feeling from a- (without, not) and pathos (emotion)), it is important not to confuse the two terms.