insouciance

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French insouciance, from in- (“not”) + souciant (“worrying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/

Noun

insouciance (countable and uncountable, plural insouciances)

1. carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern
2. nonchalance

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:apathy

Translations

carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern

• German: Sorglosigkeit (de) f, Unbesorgtheit f, Unbekümmertheit f
• Romanian: impasibilitate (ro) f, nepăsare (ro) f, indiferență (ro) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije)

nonchalance

• German: Lässigkeit (de) f, Unbekümmertheit f, Zwanglosigkeit f, Nonchalance (de) f
• Romanian: nonșalanță (ro) f, degajare (ro) f, dezinvoltură (ro) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: беззабо́тность (ru) f (bezzabótnostʹ)

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French

Pronunciation

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

Noun

insouciance f (plural insouciances)

1. insouciance, unconcern

Further reading

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