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nonchalance

UK/ˈnɒnʃələns/US/ˌnɑːnʃəˈlɑːns/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,500 of 15,258neutral

Nonchalance is a cool unbothered manner. Studied nonchalance.

It is most impressive when genuine and most obvious when it is not. Nonchalance in the face of something enormous is either courage or a failure to understand.

Victor Gilbert · Public domain

Definitions of nonchalance

  1. 1nounnonchalanceA cool unbothered manner.C1

    “The nonchalance lasted until he was out of the room.”

nonchalance is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    nonchalance

  2. English, today

    nonchalance

Borrowed from French nonchalance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

nonchalance in the wild

  • The soul arch is a classic longboard surfing maneuver, performed by arching the back while riding a wave, demonstrating nonchalance and casual confidence.

    Soul arch

  • Possibly due to his political nonchalance, Tian was applauded by Huo for being "prudent".

    Tian Qianqiu

  • Lilly delivers structural and emotional complexity with deceptive nonchalance." On July 31, 2020, she released a song bundle on Release Me called Love in Three Colors.

    Alex Lilly

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.