as in disregard
lack of interest or concern
her casualness distressed everyone who took the issue seriously
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Recent Examples of casualness
So break with tradition and go for a look that perfectly combines elegance and casualness with a playful print and your favorite baseball hat.
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Nils Doose, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2025
Erewhon’s signature SoCal casualness has been traded for Ivy League formality, complete with a dress code warning.
—Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2025
Nils Doose, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2025
Erewhon’s signature SoCal casualness has been traded for Ivy League formality, complete with a dress code warning.
—Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for casualness
Noun
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In the build-up to this scene, Jordan has a clash with the head of student life about their gender identity, and the school’s intentional disregard of their experience and language around it.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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Businessmen and revolutionaries alike tended to disregard borders.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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That kind of perfect nonchalance for the street and the occasion.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Casualness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casualness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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