insouciance

  • 11insouciance — noun (U) formal a cheerful feeling of not caring or worrying about anything: He strolled through the house with an air of insouciance. insouciant adjective insouciantly adverb …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 12insouciance — insouciant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ casually unconcerned. DERIVATIVES insouciance noun insouciantly adverb. ORIGIN French, from in not + souciant worrying …

    English terms dictionary

  • 13insouciance — noun Etymology: French, from in + soucier to trouble, disturb, from Old French, from Latin sollicitare more at solicit Date: 1799 lighthearted unconcern ; nonchalance • insouciant adjective • insouciantly adverb …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14insouciance — /in sooh see euhns/; Fr. /aonn sooh syahonns /, n. the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference. [1790 1800; < F; see INSOUCIANT, ANCE] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 15insouciance — noun a) carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern b) nonchalance …

    Wiktionary

  • 16insouciance — Synonyms and related words: abandon, accidia, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, comatoseness, cursoriness, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness,&#8230; …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 17insouciance —  , insouciant  Lack of concern, carefree …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 18insouciance — in·sou·ci·ance || ɪn suːsɪəns n. complacency, indifference; lack of concern; lightheartedness …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 19insouciance —    Breezy lack of concern; nonchalance …

    Glossary of Art Terms

  • 20insouciance — n carefreeness, nonchalance, indifference, unconcern; heedlessness, laxity, laxness, pococu rantism, lackadaisicalness, casualness; happy go luckiness, easiness, easygoingness; light mindedness, flightiness, airiness, volatility; frivolousness,&#8230; …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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