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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French nonchalance.
Pronunciation
Noun
nonchalance (usually uncountable, plural nonchalances)
- Indifference, unconcern; carelessness; coolness; disregard, detachment.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:apathy
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Translations
indifference; carelessness; coolness
- Bulgarian: безразличие (bg) n (bezrazličie), безгрижие (bg) n (bezgrižie)
- Czech: nonšalance f
- Finnish: yliolkaisuus (fi), itsevarmuus (fi)
- French: nonchalance (fr) f
- German: Nonchalance (de) f, Gelassenheit (de) f, Lässigkeit (de) f, Sprezzatura (de) f, Unbekümmertheit (de) f, Sorglosigkeit (de) f, Unbeschwertheit (de) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nonchalanse m
- Portuguese: indiferença (pt), descontração (pt)
- Romanian: nonșalanță (ro) f
- Russian: безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije), беззабо́тность (ru) f (bezzabótnostʹ), небре́жность (ru) f (nebréžnostʹ)
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French nonchalance.
Pronunciation
Noun
nonchalance f (plural nonchalances)
- nonchalance
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Descendants
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
From nonchalant.
Noun
nonchalance f (uncountable)
- nonchalance