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insouciance

Insouciance is how you feel when you are feeling cool, like nothing can bother you.

Insouciance has roots in the French in, meaning not and se soucier, meaning "to care," giving the English word its "uncaring" meaning. Insouciance can be a positive state — like the childlike insouciance you feel when you are watching cartoons instead of paying your bills. However, insouciance is not always so sunny. Young voters are often accused of treating the right to vote with insouciance, meaning they just can't be bothered.

DEFINITIONS OF: insouciance

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n the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you

Synonyms:
carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness
Type of:
blitheness, cheerfulness
a feeling of spontaneous good spirits
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