Nonchalance

Definition: Nonchalance

Nonchalance

Noun

1. The trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern.

Date "nonchalance" was first used: 1678. (references)

Etymology: Nonchalance \Non`cha`lance"\, noun. [French expression See Nonchalant.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Nonchalance

Synonyms: indifference (n), unconcern (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Indifference	Noun: indifference, neutrality; coldness; Adjective: anaphrodisia; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy, anorexia, inappetency; apathy; (insensibility); supineness; (inactivity); disdain; recklessness; inattention.
Insensibility	Cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, imperturbation; (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance; (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness.
Neglect	Noun: neglect; carelessness; Adjective: trifling; Verb: negligence; omission, oversight, laches, default; supineness; (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance; (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; (disorder), (dirt); improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness; (error).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Nonchalance

Non-English Usage: "Nonchalance" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (carelessness, negligence, remissness), French (indolence, nonchalance), German (nonchalance).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut. (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff)
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Domain	Title
Books	La nonchalance (reference) La nonchalance de Dieu (reference) Nonchalance : [Ausstellung], Centre PasquART, Biel, [31. August-26. Oktober 1997] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Controlled Nonchalance at the Regattabar (Vol. I) [LIVE] (reference) Nonchalance (reference) Nonchalance [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	His father courteously tried to make amends for his nonchalance.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He was an assassin through nonchalance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Nonchalance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nonchalance" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	51	47,619

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Language		Translations for "nonchalance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpërfillje (disregard), mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, neglect, negligence, slight, slur, snub), moskokëçarje (carelessness, indifference, insensibility, negligence). (various references)

Arabic		‏لا مبالاة (apathy, carelessness, disinterest, disinterestedness, easiness, impassivity, indifference, insouciance, phlegm, thickskin, unconcern), ‏عدم إكتراث (apathy, impoliteness, indifference, thoughtlessness), ‏رباطة جأش (aplomb, collection, composure, coolness, equanimity, philosophy, phlegm, placidity, poise, repose, self possession). (various references)

Bulgarian		равнодушие (apathy, disregard, indifference, insusceptibility, listlessness, tepidity, unconcern, vacancy), безгрижие (easiness, insouciance, lightness, mercuriality). (various references)

Czech		nenucenost (ease, informality, negligence, spontaneity). (various references)

Farsi		پشت گوش فراخی , لاقیدی (Indifference, Unconcern), سهل انگاری (Indifference). (various references)

French		nonchalance. (various references)

German		lässigkeit (carelessness, casualness, coolness, languidness, laxity, laxness, offhandedness, remissness). (various references)

Greek		νωχέλεια (drowsiness, indolence), απάθεια (apathy, apathy towards, aplomb, coolness, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, insensitivity, stolidity, stolidness), αταραξία (aplomb, calmness, composure, imperturbability, quietism, sedateness, self possession, stolidity, stolidness), αδιαφορία (cold shoulder, detachment, disinterest, indifference, listlessness, negligence, regardlessness, unconcern). (various references)

Hebrew		שויון � פש (apathy, equability, indifference), קור רוח (composure, coolness, dispassion, presence of mind, sang froid). (various references)

Hungarian		nemtörődömség (imprudence, insouciance, negligence, recklessness, sloth, slothfulness). (various references)

Italian		noncuranza (carelessness, forgetfulness, indifference, unconcern), indifferenza (aloofness, disregard, indifference, insensibility, wild card). (various references)

Manx		neuchooish. (various references)

Pig Latin		onchalancenay

Portuguese		indiferença (aloofness, apathy, callousness, cold shoulder, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterested, easiness, estreat, frill, indifference, insensibility, insouciance, litany, lukewarmness, stand off, unconcern), desprendimento (ablation(artificial), abnegation, amotio, balatio, detachment, extrication, release, renunciation, unlatching, unlocking), desinteresse (aloofness, apathy, detachment, disinterest, indifference, unconcern, washiness), água mineral sem gás. (various references)

Romanian		nepãsare (apathy, carelessness, casualness, disregard, indifference, laxity, listlessness, negligence, recklessness, remissness, sloth, unconcern), indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disregard, equanimity, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, listlessness, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, torpor, unconcern). (various references)

Russian		беззаботность (carelessness, insouciance, lightheartedness, light-heartedness, unconcern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nonšalantnost (debonair). (various references)

Spanish		indiferencia (apathy, coldness, coolness, disregard, indifference, perfunctoriness, unconcern). (various references)

Swedish		nonchalans (flippancy). (various references)

Turkish		umursamazlık (indifference, laxity, laxness, listlessness, negligence, recklessness, unconcern, unconcernedness), soğukkanlılık (calmness, cold blood, cool, coolness, equal mind, imperturbability, nerve, presence of mind, sang froid, sangfroid, self possession), kayıtsızlık (carelessness, forgetfulness, indifference, oblivion, unconcern). (various references)

Ukranian		недбалість (backwardness, carelessness, laxity, looseness, neglect, negligence, offhandedness, oscitancy, oscitation, preterition, pretermission, slapdash), безтурботність (airiness, carelessness, impassivity, placidity, unconcern), байдужість (apathy, callousness, cold-bloodedness, coldness, indifference, insensibility, negligence, oscitation, unconcern). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính thờ ơ (apathy, lethargy, listlessness, pococuranteism, pococurantism, unmindfulness), tính sơ suất, tính hờ hững (pococuranteism, pococurantism), sự vô tình tính trễ nãi, sự lânh đạm (iciness, indifference), sự không chú ý (heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, non-attention, unmindfulness), sự không cẩn thận. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	calere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nonchalance": nonchalances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nonchalance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nonchalan, nonchalanc. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nonchalance" (pronounced nÄ"nshulÄ"ns)
3	-Ä" n s	ensconce, ponce, renaissance, response, sconce.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-h-l-n-n-n-o"
	-3 letters: anconeal, cannelon, chaconne.
	-4 letters: alencon, anconal, chalone, chancel, channel, choanae, clachan, cloacae, cochlea, conceal, conchae, conchal.
	-5 letters: ancone, anlace, anneal, caecal, cancan, cancel, cancha, cannel, cannon, canola, chance, choana, clench, cloaca, cloche, concha, enhalo, lochan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-h-l-n-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: nonchalances.
	+2 letters: nonmechanical.
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