casualness
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]casualness (usually uncountable, plural casualnesses)
- The state of being casual.
- A relaxed and nonchalant attitude.
- 1997, Michael L. Frankel, Cruising the Gulags::
- The controlled way in which Germans and other northern Europeans approach life is quite different from the casualness that characterizes American attitudes.
- 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6:
- America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.