Insouciant vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?
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Carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.
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Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
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(archaic) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Watery (en).
Insouciant is a related term of phlegmatic.
As adjectives the difference between insouciant and phlegmatic
is that insouciant is carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned while phlegmatic is not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.As a noun phlegmatic is
one who has a phlegmatic disposition.insouciant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant .
- How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!
Sean Penn: Necessary Actor," Time :
- Jack Nicholson . . . turned to an assistant, bummed a cigarette, flashed one of his wolfish, insouciant grins and said, "We all have our little secrets, Seany."
phlegmatic
English
Alternative forms
* phlegmatick * phlegmaticke * phlegmatiqueAdjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Calm and phlegmatic , with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.}}
- Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
- cold and phlegmatic habitations