MEANING
An easy, casual freedom from concern or anxiety.
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Words that belong together
- apparent insouciance
- youthful insouciance
- an air of insouciance
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His insouciance irritated everyone who had stayed awake waiting for him.
She carried the news with an insouciance that might have been courage or simply ignorance.
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- insouciance
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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