casualness

English

Etymology

From casual +‎ -ness.

Noun

casualness (usually uncountable, plural casualnesses)

1. The state of being casual.
2. A relaxed and nonchalant attitude.
   • 1997, Michael L. Frankel, Cruising the Gulags::

     The controlled way in which Germans and other northern Europeans approach life is quite different from the casualness that characterizes American attitudes.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6:

     America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.

Hyponyms

• the English vice (equanimity in the face of corruption, etc.)