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Antonyms for insouciance
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : in-soo-see-uh ns; French an-soo-syahns |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈsu si əns; French ɛ̃ suˈsyɑ̃s |
- action
- activity
- admiration
- approval
- attention
- awakening
- bias
- busyness
- care
- caring
- compassion
- concern
- consciousness
- difficulty
- disquiet
- effort
- energy
- esteem
- excitableness
- feeling
- furor
- honor
- inability
- inhibition
- interest
- involvement
- life
- liveliness
- love
- note
- passion
- perplexity
- regard
- remembrance
- respect
- restriction
- sensitivity
- strife
- sympathy
- turmoil
- uneasiness
- unrest
- vigor
- vitality
- vivaciousness
- vivacity
- wakefulness
- warmth
Definition of insouciance
Origin :- 1799, from French insouciant "carelessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + se soucier "to care," from Latin sollicitare "to agitate" (see solicit).
- As in indifference : noun absence of feeling, interest
- As in lethargy : noun laziness, sluggishness
- As in nonchalance : noun apathy
- As in unconcern : noun disinterestedness
- As in hebetude : noun lethargy
- As in impassivity : noun apathy
- As in inconsequence : noun indifference
- As in inconsequentiality : noun indifference
- As in inconsequentialness : noun indifference
- As in incuriosity : noun apathy
- As in incuriousness : noun apathy
- As in informality : noun ease
- As in insensibleness : noun apathy
- As in insignificancy : noun indifference
- As in languidness : noun lethargy
- As in leadenness : noun lethargy
- As in phlegm : noun apathy
- As in stolidity : noun apathy
- As in stolidness : noun apathy
- As in torpidity : noun lethargy
- As in uninterest : noun apathy
- As in unresponsiveness : noun apathy
- As in disregard : noun ignoring
- As in ease : noun facility, freedom
- As in apathy : noun uncaring attitude, lack of interest
- With that and a superb air of insouciance, he made shift to go.
- Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini
- A wave of his hand simulated an insouciance he did not feel.
- Extract from : « When the Sleepers Woke » by Arthur Leo Zagat
- Perhaps they were affecting a little of that British insouciance you spoke of—'
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- I crave the gaiety and insouciance of Roberta's care-free Bohemians.
- Extract from : « Possessed » by Cleveland Moffett
- That's the kind of man I really like, chirping his insouciance.
- Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
- Idleness and insouciance had few temptations for them, cynicism was abhorrent to them.
- Extract from : « Victorian Worthies » by George Henry Blore
- What an air of insouciance,” thought I. “That woman is not in love!
- Extract from : « The Quadroon » by Mayne Reid
- His Insouciance is charming and always turns the tide of my melancholy.
- Extract from : « Letters of a Dakota Divorcee » by Jane Burr
- Lovely, with a show of insouciance, bagged three gerunds and one gerundive.
- Extract from : « The Varmint » by Owen Johnson
- "I repeat, everything," said Bazarov with an ineffable expression of insouciance.
- Extract from : « Fathers and Sons » by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Synonyms for insouciance
- adroitness
- affability
- alienation
- aloofness
- apathy
- aplomb
- breeze
- brush-off
- callousness
- carelessness
- casualness
- child's play
- cinch
- cleverness
- cold shoulder
- cold-bloodedness
- coldness
- coma
- composure
- contempt
- coolness
- detachment
- dexterity
- disdain
- disesteem
- disfavor
- disinterest
- disinterestedness
- dispassion
- dispatch
- disregard
- disrespect
- drowsiness
- duck soup
- dullness
- easiness
- easygoingness
- efficiency
- effortlessness
- emotionlessness
- equity
- expertise
- expertness
- familiarity
- flexibility
- fluency
- forgetting
- halfheartedness
- hebetude
- heedlessness
- idleness
- immunity
- impartiality
- impassiveness
- impassivity
- inaction
- inactivity
- inadvertence
- inanition
- inattention
- inconsequence
- inconsequentiality
- inconsequentialness
- incuriosity
- incuriousness
- indifference
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- informality
- insensibility
- insensibleness
- insensitivity
- insignificance
- insignificancy
- insouciance
- isolationism
- knack
- lack
- languidness
- languor
- lassitude
- leadenness
- lethargy
- liberty
- listlessness
- naturalness
- neglect
- neglecting
- negligence
- neutrality
- nonchalance
- noninterference
- objectivity
- oblivion
- omission
- omitting
- overlooking
- oversight
- passiven
- passiveness
- passivity
- phlegm
- poise
- pushover
- quickness
- readiness
- relaxedness
- scorn
- setup
- simplicity
- skillfulness
- sleep
- sleepiness
- slight
- slighting
- sloth
- slowness
- sluggishness
- slumber
- smooth sailing
- smoothness
- snap
- spontaneity
- stoicism
- stolidity
- stolidness
- stupor
- supineness
- the cold shoulder
- torpidity
- torpidness
- torpor
- unaffectedness
- unceremoniousness
- unconcern
- unconstraint
- unimportance
- uninterest
- unmindfulness
- unreservedness
- unresponsiveness
- unrestraint
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