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casualness

noun

Etymology

From casual + -ness.

  1. derived from cāsuālis
  2. borrowed from casuel
  3. suffixed as casualness — “casual + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being casual.

  2. A relaxed and nonchalant attitude.

    • Johnson's blacks bluffed casualness along the sides of the room and Difalco's two whites peered inconspicuously from the door.
    • The controlled way in which Germans and other northern Europeans approach life is quite different from the casualness that characterizes American attitudes.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for casualness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA