unconcern
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + concern, around 1660–1670.
Noun
[edit]unconcern (countable and uncountable, plural unconcerns)
- Lack of interest or care; indifference or apathy.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. The perpetual commendations of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.
- 1962, Robert Frost, “The Milky Way Is a Cowpath”, in In the Clearing, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, page 88:
- The author of these words / Whose lifelong unconcern / Has been with flocks and herds / For what they didn't earn.
- Freedom from worry or apprehensiveness; insouciance or nonchalance.
- 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 239:
- Towns, hills, and mountains were submerged one after the other, yet for long the rebels, secure in the height of their town, looked down with unconcern on the rising tide of waters.
- 1959 February 8, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 220:
- [Albert, about Bear asleep:] A soft smile of lovin' unconcern on his friendly face as he dozes on.
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