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pococurantism

/ˌpəʊkəʊkjʊˈɹæntɪzəm/

pococurantism noun: indifference, nonchalance.

Noun

pococurantism (countable and uncountable, plural pococurantisms)

  1. Indifference, nonchalance.
    • The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Beginnings”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
    • It is queer the fantastic things quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter VI, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part IV, page 222

Forms of pococurantism

pluralpococurantisms

Origin of pococurantism

From pococurante + -ism.

Questions about pococurantism

What does pococurantism mean?
Pococurantism means indifference, nonchalance.
What part of speech is pococurantism?
Pococurantism is a noun.
How do you pronounce pococurantism?
Pococurantism is pronounced /ˌpəʊkəʊkjʊˈɹæntɪzəm/.
What is the plural of pococurantism?
The plural of pococurantism is pococurantisms.

Words near pococurantism in the dictionary

  1. Pococks
  2. pococurante
  3. pococuranteism
  4. pococurantes
  5. pococurantic
  6. pococurantism
  7. pococurantisms
  8. pococurantist
  9. pococurantists
  10. pocomania
  11. pocones

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