nonchalance

See also: Nonchalance

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle French nonchalance

French nonchalancebor.

English nonchalance

Borrowed from French nonchalance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒnʃələns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌnɑːnʃəˈlɑːns/

Noun

nonchalance (usually uncountable, plural nonchalances)

1. Indifference, unconcern; carelessness; coolness; disregard, detachment.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:apathy

Related terms

• nonchalant

Translations

indifference; carelessness; coolness

• Bulgarian: безразличие (bg) n (bezrazličie), безгрижие (bg) n (bezgrižie)
• Catalan: indiferència (ca) f, despreocupació f
• Czech: nonšalance f
• Finnish: yliolkaisuus (fi), itsevarmuus (fi)
• French: nonchalance (fr) f
• German: Nonchalance (de) f, Gelassenheit (de) f, Lässigkeit (de) f, Sprezzatura (de) f, Unbekümmertheit (de) f, Sorglosigkeit (de) f, Unbeschwertheit (de) f
• Hungarian: fesztelenség (hu), lezserség (hu), nemtörődömség (hu), nonsalansz (hu)
• Italian: non-chalance f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nonchalanse m

• Portuguese: indiferença (pt), descontração (pt)
• Romanian: nonșalanță (ro) f
• Russian: безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije), беззабо́тность (ru) f (bezzabótnostʹ), небре́жность (ru) f (nebréžnostʹ)
• Spanish: indiferente, descuidado

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French nonchalance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃s/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

nonchalance f (plural nonchalances)

1. nonchalance

Related terms

• nonchalant

Descendants

• → English: nonchalance
• → German: Nonchalance
• → Norwegian Bokmål: nonchalanse, nonsjalanse
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: nonchalanse, nonsjalanse
• → Romanian: nonșalanță

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From nonchalant.

Noun

nonchalance f (uncountable)

1. nonchalance