Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character, disposition, or habits of a pococurante; extreme indifference, apathy, or carelessness; inaccuracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Carelessness; apathy; indifference.
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- noun
Nonchalance ,indifference .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906
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Society divides naturally into classes, diletantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there.
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His pleasing form was only the seductive veil of immorality and pococurantism.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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However modern, Cecily, it was clear, had caught nothing of the disease of pococurantism.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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He was reckless to the uttermost stretch of recklessness, all serene and quiet though his pococurantism and his daily manner were; and while subdued to the undeviating monotone and languor of his peculiar set in all his temper and habits, the natural dare-devil in him took out its inborn instincts in a wildly careless and gamester-like imprudence with that most touchy tempered and inconsistent of all coquettes -- Fortune.
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Herbert himself sat throned like an Epicurean god in the pure halo of cultivated pococurantism.
Philistia Grant Allen 1873
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