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A type of apathy whereby you can not find the energy to walk to the local shop to buy sugar, but can find the energy to go out and count the amount of steps between where you live and the shop in question. This phenomenon was discovered at the University of Wales Lampeter, Where it's name derives from.
Bob: We need more sugar.
Billy: CBA
Bob: I'll go, then. How Far is the shop?
Billy: <Getting up and putting coat on> Hang on, I'll find out.
Bob:That's Lampathy for you!
Lampathy by PowellBar March 7, 2011
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When a person begins to sympathetically develop a fake limp after spending too much time with a person that has a real limp.
That girl has limpathy for her friend with the hurt leg.
Limpathy by JaKevin Woo June 18, 2014
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Having a lack of understanding, empathy or sympathy for a person, situation or feeling.
My friend had only limpathy for the situation they put us in.
Limpathy by Buffnuggle January 11, 2010

lympathy 

when a person w/ a minor injury limps around looking for sympathy or garnering attention.
That soccer player wasn't even touched but he's walking off the field in lympathy.
lympathy by tmdc December 17, 2010
When a woman tells a guy it's just one of those things when he can't get it up, and actually believes it.
Clive: Shit Mavis, it won't stay hard.
Mavis: It's Ok Clive, I've always had limpathy for guys that can't get it up after seeing my clam. It's a scary one afterall.
Limpathy by Mavis Clam April 29, 2011
Sympathy for a sexual partner's impotency.
"How was your hot date with Geof?"

"It started out well, but ended up being an evening of tears and limpathy because he couldn't get it up."
Limpathy by coining buttress October 18, 2011