unconcern

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern
noun a feeling of lack of concern

From un- + concern, around 1660–1670.

Overton was not given to keen analysis of people or motives; a healthy unconcern pervaded his mind as to the affairs of most people. — That Girl Montana, Marah Ellis Ryan
The calm and polite unconcern of Lady Middleton on the occasion was a happy relief to Elinor’s spirits, oppressed as they often were by the clamorous kindness of the others. — Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Tom saw abundance of men,—great, burly, gruff men; little, chirping, dried men; long-favored, lank, hard men; and every variety of stubbed-looking, commonplace men, who pick up their fellow-men as one picks up chips, putting them into the fire or a basket with equal unconcern, according to their convenience; but he saw no St. Clare. — Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

nonchalance, indifference

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