unconcern

American  

[uhn-kuhn-surn] / ˌʌn kənˈsɜrn /

noun

1. absence of feeling or concern; indifference.

   Synonyms:

   insouciance, nonchalance

2. freedom from anxiety.

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unconcern British  

/ ˌʌnkənˈsɜːn /

noun

1. apathy or indifference

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Related Words

See indifference.

Etymology

Origin of unconcern

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

Example Sentences

Unconcern In Ramsey, N. J., when Jennie Quackenbush spurned his offer of marriage, Farmer William Storms pulled a $5 bill from his pocket, set fire to it.

From Time Magazine Archive

In vain to this dread Unconcern For the All-Father's love we look; In vain, in quest of it, we turn The storied leaves of Nature's book, The prints her rocky tablets took.

From Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier by Whittier, John Greenleaf

Unconcern, un-kon-sern′, n. want of concern, anxiety, or solicitude.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

He took up the Cub, and with an Unconcern that had nothing of the Joy or Gladness of Victory, he came and laid the Whelp at my Feet.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague