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English

Noun

insouciance (countable and uncountable, plural insouciances)

• Carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.
  • ✤ So Gelernter, with an insouciance he now regrets, also chose a Lovelace as a namesake—Linda, the lead actress in “Deep Throat.”¹
• Nonchalance.
  • ✤ She almost felt insulted by [the wild boar’s] insouciance as it rooted in her grove.²

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$, →ISSN: ↩

2. 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 ↩