Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Blithe lack of concern; nonchalance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being insouciant; heedless indifference or unconcern; carelessness of feeling or manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
carelessness ,heedlessness ,indifference , orcasual unconcern - noun
nonchalance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
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Examples
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
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The sheer insouciance from the IRS towards all tax-deviant clerics following Pulpit Freedom Sundays in 2008 and 2009 leaves little precedent for a change in policy this year.
Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle Stuart Whatley 2010
grammar commented on the word insouciance
"When Mr. O'Rourke set out into the world after a youthful Maoist phase (it was, after all, the '60s) there was an element of novelty to his insouciance, and his beliefs, like the larger movement of which he was a part, constituted their own kind of insurgency."
January 11, 2007
yarb commented on the word insouciance
Motivated by insouciance, the
Despatch Clerk idly amuses himself
correcting the grosser solecisms
committed by his superiors to
print in the monthly house magazine (called
Info-Flo)...
- Peter Reading, Concord, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
June 28, 2008
d4divine commented on the word insouciance
similar to nonchalance
June 28, 2008
d4divine commented on the word insouciance
similar to nonchalance
June 28, 2008
Bosporan commented on the word insouciance
Why is there no entry for 'souciance'?
January 2, 2013
bilby commented on the word insouciance
That's a bit like asking why cockroaches would survive a nuclear holocaust.
January 2, 2013