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insouciance
/ˌɪnˈsusiəns/
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What does insouciance mean?
noun
- Carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.
- Nonchalance.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈsusiəns/
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He smiled at Jurgis confidingly, and then started talking again, with his blissful insouciance.
I can't make him understand that a job involving the happiness of one hundred or so children can't be chucked with such charming insouciance.
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The odd ways of these Samoans, their pride of position, their vices, their virtues, their vanities, their small thefts, their tricks, their delightful insouciance sometimes, all amused him.