insouciance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.

   So Gelernter, with an insouciance he now regrets, also chose a Lovelace as a namesake—Linda, the lead actress in "Deep Throat.".

From French insouciance, from in- (“not”) + souciant (“worrying”).

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