Crossword clues for insouciance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insouciance \In`sou`ciance"\, n. [F.] Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern 2 nonchalance
WordNet
n. the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you [syn: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness]
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.