Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of interest; indifference.
- noun Lack of worry or apprehensiveness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifferentism; indifference; apathy.
- noun Synonyms Indifference, Insensibility, etc. See
apathy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nonstandard, obsolete
indifference orlack ofconcern .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a feeling of lack of concern
- noun the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ignore it deliberately, as a kitten stalks away with feigned unconcern from a suddenly tedious cotton-reel, in the hope that, seen afresh from the other side of the room, it will turn once more into a mouse.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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That evidence of their essential "unconcern" was established by interviews and reported in Alice Kimball Smith's A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists 'Movement in America, 1945-1947 (MIT Press, 1970, pp. 60-61.)
Science and Society: An Exchange Feyerabend, Paul 1979
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Kevles's history almost entirely ignores both the "unconcern" of the majority and the "concern" of the minority.
Science and Society: An Exchange Feyerabend, Paul 1979
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This time he tried the one that folks call "unconcern," a look as if he had no troubles at all, as if he had nothing to hide.
Seven O'Clock Stories Robert Gordon Anderson
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"It bears the marks of that superb unconcern which is the characteristic of genius," replied the Ambitious Writer, contemptuously passing him by.
Fantastic Fables Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1899
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"It bears the marks of that superb unconcern which is the characteristic of genius," replied the Ambitious Writer, contemptuously passing him by.
Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Donning an unadorned and boyish wardrobe that itself did not "weigh heavily," she fashioned renunciation into a contrary look of simplicity, ineffability, transcendent unconcern her competitor Paul Poiret called it "poverty deluxe".
The Enduring Coco Chanel Laura Jacobs 2011
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The raven pretended unconcern and stretched his wings.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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"Yes, Captain," he said, with the same quiet unconcern with which he would have accepted an invitation to dinner; "I'll go with you to Mangareva."
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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Whenever women turn up in the stories, a rancorous tone intrudes that is badly at odds with his characters' merry unconcern.
Tales of Jaunty Anarchy on the Nile Sam Sacks 2011
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