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I think dispirited means more discouraged, disheartened, depressed. Apathetic means that you just don't care.
Becoming dispirited is generally done to you by something or someone - the death of someone close will make you dispirited.
Apathy is a state of mind brought about by a consideration of something at the end of which you decide that you don't have an opinion, or something about which you just don't know enough to have an opinion and about which you don't care enough to inform yourself well enough to form one.
Is that clear?
Oh I dunno, somehow I just can't be bothered!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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