insouciance

/ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

"So Gelernter, with an insouciance he now regrets, also chose a Lovelace as a namesake—Linda, the lead actress in "Deep Throat.""
"She almost felt insulted by [the wild boar's] insouciance as it rooted in her grove."

From French insouciance, from in- (“not”) + souciant (“worrying”).

insouciances (plural)

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It is traced to French.

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