casualness
/kˈæʒəwəlnɛs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Johnson's blacks bluffed casualness along the sides of the room and Difalco's two whites peered inconspicuously from the door."
- "The controlled way in which Germans and other northern Europeans approach life is quite different from the casualness that characterizes American attitudes."
- "America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy."
Etymology
Etymology tree English casual Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English casualness From casual + -ness.