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insouciances

insouciances is the plural of insouciance.

Meaning of insouciance

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

Questions about insouciances

What is insouciances the plural of?
Insouciances is the plural of insouciance.

Words near insouciances in the dictionary

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

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