单词 | nonchalance |
释义 | nonchalancen. The condition of being nonchalant; (deliberate) lack of enthusiasm or interest; casual indifference, unconcern.Usually an attribute of a person, but sometimes in extended use as an attribute of a person's demeanour, utterance, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [noun] carelessness1561 neutrality1561 indifferency1608 perfunctoriness1626 indifference1660 unconcernment1660 slightiness1662 unconcernedness1675 nonchalance1678 upsitting1680 equilibrium1685 inconcernedness1688 unconcernness1700 unconcern1711 indifferentness1727 Laodiceanism1774 facility1791 insouciance1799 aloofness1817 don't-carishness1821 pococurantism1823 don't-careism1834 don't-care-a-damnativeness1841 nonchalantness1878 casualness1882 disinterest1889 noncurance1904 uncaringness1930 1678 H. Savile Corr. (1858) 73 She..is at last tired with the King's nonchalance in the prosecution of it. 1758 Case Authors Stated 28 With the true Non-Chalance of the Indifferent. 1774 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 35 All the sisters then poured forth the Incense of Praise upon this Ode, to which he listened with the utmost nonchalance. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. iii. i. 248 All this, too, without any excitement of manner; on the contrary with repose amounting almost to nonchalance. 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 29 Neglected dames were sublime in a wretched nonchalance. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 305 Allusions to his old characters are thrown in with a calculated nonchalance. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 35 The boy had loved the theatre, and old Jolyon recalled how he used to sit opposite, concealing his excitement under a careful but transparent nonchalance. 1952 S. J. Perelman Road to Miltown (1957) 29 It was, of course, the utter nonchalance of the phrase ‘who sent his laundry to Paris’ that knocked me galley-west. 1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy v. 103 Although he tried to keep up an appearance of nonchalance, he was terrified. 2000 Denver Post 10 Sept. c19/4 One of the players Nevin thought was dogging it was center fielder Ruben Rivera, who plays with a natural nonchalance anyway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678 |
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