pococurantism

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
27
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˌpəʊkəʊkjʊˈɹæntɪzəm/

Definition of pococurantism

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Indifference, nonchalance.
    “The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.”
    “It is queer the fantastic things quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.”
    “Happier after that expression of poco-curantism, I strolled down to Veeraswamy's and thoughtfully gorged myself with curried lamb and buttered chapatis.”

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Etymology

From pococurante + -ism.

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