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Meanings of insouciance in English

The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.

Synonyms
Examples for "lightheartedness"
Examples for "lightheartedness"
1
The lightheartedness is signalled within a hundred words of the opening.
The Irish Times
2
A little more lightheartedness would render me the happiest being under the sun.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
3
For lightheartedness and good fellowship our Australian geologists should be given first prize.
South with Scott
4
He let himself be irritated by the lightheartedness of Forbes.
Their Pilgrimage
5
I wondered immediately as suspicion chased away the lightheartedness that the flamingos had inspired.
Too close to home
1
Carterette, with all her seeming lightsomeness, had sense and self- possession.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 4
2
They left the theater very slowly, with all the lightsomeness and gladness of heart gone.
The Rebel of the School
3
There was lightsomeness and gladness in every breath.
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
4
The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
5
George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.
Chapters from My Autobiography
1
My carefreeness was made possible by her carefulness, and there was the line, the distinction between my girlhood and her motherhood.
Ebony
Usage of insouciance in English
1
Dr. Stanton walked with a certain insouciance, or maybe simply absolute confidence.
A fierce radiance: a novel
2
But he is also capable, at any time, of great sporting insouciance.
The Guardian
3
What we were left with was an overwhelming sense of glacial insouciance.
The Guardian
4
The ballet requires formidable technique, enormous energy and a wisecracking youthful insouciance.
The new yorker
5
It had been easy to feign insouciance in the brightly lit hospital.
Career of Evil
6
The two minutes seem like hours to him, but he feigns insouciance.
Grand junction
7
Even the sick man found it difficult to maintain his cheery insouciance.
The Emigrant Trail
8
It is beautifully written, in that her guilt confronts his seeming insouciance.
The Guardian
9
First, he's got that killer combination of stunning charm and breathtaking insouciance.
The Guardian
10
We'll miss Hank's desperate sycophancy and pathetic backstabbing, and Artie's breezy insouciance.
The Irish Times
11
Yet even in his insouciance there was something engaging; something almost of distinction.
Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
12
No wonder children squirm with delighted terror over Nutkin's insouciance and maddening riddles.
The Guardian
13
The laughter and insouciance were gone, at least for the moment.
Bag of Bones
14
Breezy insouciance is his stock-in trade, whether he is discussing rugby or not.
The Guardian
15
He turned in the saddle, smiling at her with jaunty insouciance.
Mavericks
16
The oddest and most potentially controversial aspect of Elle involves Michelle's relative insouciance.
The Irish Times
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