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Insouciance   /ɪnsˈusiəns/  /ɪnsˈusjəns/   Listen
Insouciance

noun
1.
The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.  Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness.






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"Insouciance" Quotes from Famous Books



... writing a family letter, says, 'I feel that the interest of business and the excitement of responsibility are indispensable to me, and I believe that I am never happier than when I have more to think of and to do than I can manage in a given period'. Idleness and insouciance had few temptations for them, cynicism was abhorrent to them. Even Thackeray was perpetually 'caught out' when he assumed the cynic's pose. Charlotte Bronte, most loyal of his admirers and critics, speaks of the 'deep feelings for his kind' which ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore



Words linked to "Insouciance" :   insouciant, blitheness, cheerfulness



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