Meaning and example
the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
The passage used "insouciance" to mean the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.000 places insouciance in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 50% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 49.9%
the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
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- Known by
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- 50.4%
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- 50.7%
blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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