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noun
the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
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Nonchalance
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Example Sentences
- It chose not to, adding a worry that anti-Semitism displays are being met with inexcusable nonchalance.
- McCarthy is capable of charming nonchalance but has little occasion to display it here.
- The validity of entire chapters in history are denied with chilling nonchalance.
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Word Origin & History
nonchalance
1670s, from Fr. nonchalant, prp. of nonchaloir "be indifferent to, have no concern for" (13c.), from non- "not" + chaloir "have concern for," ultimately from L. calere "be hot" (see calorie). French chaland "customer, client" is of the same origin.
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