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casualness

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Etymology

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From casual +‎ -ness.

Noun

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casualness (usually uncountable, plural casualnesses)

  1. The state of being casual.
  2. 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.








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