blase

[blah-zey, blah-zey; Fr. bla-zey]

Origin

adjective

indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.

Origin:
1810–20; < French, past participle of blaser to cloy, sicken from surfeit, perhaps < Dutch blasen to blow; see blast

Synonyms
apathetic, jaded, cloyed, sated, glutted, surfeited, world-weary.

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blasé

"bored from overindulgence," 1819, from Fr. blasé, pp. of blaser "to satiate" (17c.), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Du. blazen "to blow" (related to English blast), with a sense of "puffed up under the effects of drinking."

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