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Casualness

Casualness \Cas"u*al*ness\, n. The quality of being casual.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
casualness

1730, from casual (adj.) + -ness.

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casualness

n. 1 The state of being casual. 2 A relaxed and nonchalant attitude.

WordNet
casualness

n. a casual manner [syn: familiarity]

Usage examples of "casualness".

And on the first, and so far only occasion, when Karlstrom had encountered Brickman in Cloudlands, he had asked, with disarming casualness, to speak with him in private.

Their Kapitans conferred, conning tower to conning tower, with the casualness of men who knew that a hundred metres of water made them untouchable.

Most encrypted messages were decoded with a casualness that would shock those who sent them.

JR sat beside Bucklin and Lyra and put in his earpiece to catch the drift of that message, relieved to hear the Old Man’s voice addressing the Union captain in a casualness that didn’t betoken hostility.

Tanaka Gin glanced around the crowded food court with the kind of forced casualness that gave Ushiba the impression he was concerned about security.

She pulled a chair back, sat down across the round table from Vikktakkht, with Fala and Hallan behind her, and settled back in deliberate casualness.

She had delivered this stunner with oh-by-the-way casualness as the two of them were leaving the Human Polity office block on Monday, heading for the tube station along with a great mob of operant human bureau­.

For greater casualness, he propped one running shoe on the pilot's platform.

Swayne, his eyes wide, stared at the small tattoo on his flesh, instantly crooking his arm to his chest in British brigadier fashion as he walked unsteadily back to the tee, summoning a casualness he could not feel.