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

synonyms: indifference, unconcern.

Roget 460: neglect; carelessness etc. adj.; trifling etc. v.; negligence; omission, oversight, laches [Law], default; supineness etc. (inactivity) 683; inattention etc. 458; nonchalance etc. (insensibility) 823; imprudence, recklessness etc. 863; slovenliness etc. (disorder) 59, (dirt) 653; improvidence etc. 674; noncompletion etc. 730; inexactness etc. (error) 495.    paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric). trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber.    ... show more

Roget 823: insensibility, insensibleness^†; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae [Lat.]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency^†, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude^†, supineness, lukewarmness^†.    cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid [Fr.]; stoicism, imperturbation etc. (inexcitability) 826^†; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance etc. (indifference) 866; recklessness etc. 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness.    torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction^†, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep etc. 683; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness etc. (physical insensibility) 376.    neutrality; quietism, vegetation.    ... show more

Roget 866: indifference, neutrality; coldness etc. adj.; anaphrodisia^†; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy^†, anorexia, inappetency^†; apathy etc. (insensibility) 823; supineness etc. (inactivity) 683; disdain etc. 930; recklessness etc. 863; inattention etc. 458.    anaphrodisiac^†, antaphrodisiac^†; lust-quencher, passion-queller^†.    ... show more