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insouciance

/ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/

insouciance noun: carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.

Noun

insouciance (countable and uncountable, plural insouciances)

  1. Carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.
    • So Gelernter, with an insouciance he now regrets, also chose a Lovelace as a namesake—Linda, the lead actress in "Deep Throat."1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. Nonchalance.
    • She almost felt insulted by [the wild boar's] insouciance as it rooted in her grove.2024, Patrik Jonsson and Melanie Stetson Freeman, Florida woman kills wild boar with mango. (This is not a meme.), in: The Christian Science Monitor, August 27 2024

insouciance meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

insouciance in Urdu

بےفکری, بےپرواہی, لاتعلقی

insouciance in Malayalam

nonchalance, unconcern, indifference
സൂക്ഷ്മമില്ലായ്മ, ഉദാസീനത, അനവഹിതമായ അവസ്ഥ, അശ്രദ്ധ, താല്ലര്യരാഹിത്യം, അലക്ഷ്യഭാവം

Forms of insouciance

pluralinsouciances

Origin of insouciance

From French insouciance, from in- (“not”) + souciant (“worrying”).

Questions about insouciance

What does insouciance mean?
Insouciance means carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.
What is insouciance in Urdu?
Insouciance in Urdu is بےفکری, بےپرواہی, لاتعلقی. See Insouciance meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is insouciance?
Insouciance is a noun.
How do you pronounce insouciance?
Insouciance is pronounced /ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/.
What is the plural of insouciance?
The plural of insouciance is insouciances.

Words near insouciance in the dictionary

  1. insonifications
  2. insonified
  3. insonify
  4. insonorous
  5. insooth
  6. insouciance
  7. insouciances
  8. insouciant
  9. insouciantly
  10. insoul
  11. insouled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insouciance (page history and authors); insouciance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insouciance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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