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insouciance

[ in-soo-see-uhns; French an-soo-syahns ]

noun

  1. the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of insouciance1

From French, dating back to 1790–1800; insouciant, -ance

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Example Sentences

But as faking sincerity is difficult, replicating insouciance is a challenge.

Leno answered, lending a certain insouciance to his line reading.

But he was also a gifted actor, providing an interesting mélange of surfer dude insouciance with a hint of danger.

Its insouciance with punctuation may lend the book an aura of difficulty, but in practice this is not the case.

No, this was “theater” pronounced with sunglasses and insouciance.

Lovely, with a show of insouciance, bagged three gerunds and one gerundive.

The autopilot functioned perfectly, however, and Logan trusted it to the point of insouciance.

It was as truly part of her (and a growing part of her) as her brilliant enjoyment and insouciance.

Under its insouciance and extravagance lie many of the ideas that dictated his attitude as writer and as critic.

Such insouciance would have galled Miss Gabriel past endurance had it not, mercifully, lain outside her range of apprehension.

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