insouciance

From French insouciance, from in- (“not”) + souciant (“worrying”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/

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insouciance (countable and uncountable, plural insouciances)

1. Carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.
   • 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     So Gelernter, with an insouciance he now regrets, also chose a Lovelace as a namesake—Linda, the lead actress in "Deep Throat."

2. Nonchalance.
   • 2024, Patrik Jonsson and Melanie Stetson Freeman, Florida woman kills wild boar with mango. (This is not a meme.), in: The Christian Science Monitor, August 27 2024

     She almost felt insulted by [the wild boar's] insouciance as it rooted in her grove.

• See also Thesaurus:apathy

From insouciant +‎ -ance.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.su.sjɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

insouciance f (plural insouciances)

1. insouciance, unconcern; carelessness, recklessness

• “insouciance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.