UNCONCERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unconcern mean? 

• UNCONCERN (noun)
  The noun UNCONCERN has 2 senses:

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

2. a feeling of lack of concern

  Familiarity information: UNCONCERN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCONCERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

indifference; nonchalance; unconcern

Hypernyms ("unconcern" is a kind of...):

carefreeness (the trait of being without worry or responsibility)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of lack of concern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("unconcern" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unconcern"):

indifference (unbiased impartial unconcern)

coldheartedness; hardheartedness; heartlessness (an absence of concern for the welfare of others)

Antonym:

concern (a feeling of sympathy for someone or something)

 Context examples 

Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm unconcern which was not in the least altered by her communication.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The all will soon be told, cried Tom hastily, and with affected unconcern; but it is not worth while to bore my father with it now.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

All passiveness and unconcern had dropped from them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The calm and polite unconcern of Lady Middleton on the occasion was a happy relief to Elinor's spirits, oppressed as they often were by the clamorous kindness of the others.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A cold drizzle was falling, but he bared his head to it and unbuttoned his vest, swinging along in splendid unconcern.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She opened her eyes, and we all started as she said, sweetly and seemingly with the utmost unconcern:—"Oh, Professor, why ask me to do what you know I can't? I don't remember anything."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You think you carry it off very well, I dare say, but with you it is a sort of bravado, an air of affected unconcern; I always observe it whenever I meet you under those circumstances.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, Oh! but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling—from the sincerity of Edmund's too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)