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The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
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insouciance
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insouciance \In`sou`ciance"\, n. [F.] Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1799, from French insouciant "carelessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + se soucier "to care," from Latin sollicitare "to agitate" (see solicit ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ For all her apparent insouciance , she was desperately unhappy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you [syn: carefreeness , lightheartedness , lightsomeness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern 2 nonchalance
Usage examples of insouciance.
As far as remunerative achievement was concerned, Comus copied the insouciance of the field lily with a dangerous fidelity.
Niles Peneddyn, of course, had taken to the world of consciousness-alteration with the same insouciance he approached everything else, from sex to Alpine skiing—.
Niles Peneddyn, of course, had taken to the world of consciousness-alteration with the same insouciance he approached everything else, from sex to Alpine skiing-as a series of lighthearted adventures that would someday make entertaining vignettes for his autobiography.
A floppy white hat topped her graying hair, and the insouciance of its floppiness made her audience warm up to her immediately.
They floated atop the waves with the insouciance of jelly fish -- but these blood-colored scions were flat, fringed with tiny cilia that somehow steadied them and separated them from their fellows.
With that poise and insouciance, the hint of authority in her long easy stride, she would come of good racy stock-one of the old Prussian families probably or from similar remnants in Poland or even Russia.
Ashley swaggers in with all the insouciance of a future master of the house.