unconcern

[uhn-kuhn-surn]

noun

1. absence of feeling or concern; indifference.

   Synonyms: insouciance, nonchalance

2. freedom from anxiety.

unconcern

/ ˌʌnkənˈsɜːn /

noun

1. apathy or indifference

Word History and Origins

Origin of unconcern¹

First recorded in 1660–70; un- ¹ + concern

Synonym Study

See indifference.

Example Sentences

The belief, which you’ll hear from Washington-based politicos of a younger sort, presumes that progressives’ unconcern about their side’s moral and ethical perversities has enabled the left’s cultural and political advancements.

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Even on death row, he retained his aura of blithe unconcern.

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His attitude veered from playful unconcern to cool indifference, as he told macabre jokes about surviving riots and poked fun at clichés and stereotypes about Muslims.

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Most of Ukraine’s ravaged cultural sites are like the shelled Reims Cathedral: perhaps not directly targeted, but destroyed with ruthless unconcern.

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It takes time to figure all of this out, which may signal confidence in the audience on the part of Wills and Tarker, or brash unconcern.

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