insouciance: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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	Word of the Day for Thursday, March 21, 2013 insouciance \in-SOO-see-uhns; Fr. an-soo-SYAHNS\, noun: the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference. He kept dropping an Indian club and picking it up with forced and scowling insouciance. -- John Banville, Eclipse, 2007 Gleason gave me a warning or two about the possible dangers into which my insouciance might yet lead me. -- Gore Vidal, Death in the Fifth Position, 1952 The Latin root sollicitaire coupled with the negating prefix in- literally means "to not disturb or agitate." This adjective entered English in the nineteenth century, shortly after the noun form insouciance started being used by English speakers. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Lexical Investigations: Desiderata Desiderata Desiderata is a plural noun, with the singular form desideratum, meaning "things wanted or needed": "Happily-ever-after" and "eternal love" appear to be the desiderata of the current generation to whom "fat chance" say those of us who are older, wiser and more curmudgeonly. For many, the word desiderata most often evokes the famous poem by Max... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: e-dict...@googlegroups.com Subscriber since: January 06, 2008 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wor...@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!