Unconcern
[ʌnkən'sɜːn] or [,ʌnkən'sɝn]
Definition
(n.) Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indifference, carelessness, coolness, NONCHALANCE.
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Definition
n. want of concern anxiety or solicitude.—adj. Unconcerned′ not concerned: carelessly secure.—adv. Unconcer′nedly in an unconcerned manner: without anxiety.—ns. Unconcer′nedness Unconcern′ment.
Typist: Ruben
Examples
- Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- George neither spoke to nor looked at Legree, who did not countermand his orders, but stood, whistling, with an air of forced unconcern. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Suddenly the child asked, in a voice of unconcern: 'Do you think my father's going to die, Miss Brangwen? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They parted with apparent unconcern, as if their going apart were a trivial occurrence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, Oh! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Oh, I trust so, he answered, with an effort to throw as much sober unconcern into his tone as possible! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To Edison, however, no trace of sentiment or regret occurred, and the whole ruins were apparently as much a matter of unconcern as if he were viewing the remains of Pompeii. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The _all_ will soon be told, cried Tom hastily, and with affected unconcern; but it is not worth while to bore my father with it now. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Editor: Miriam