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Uninterested vs Insouciant - What's the difference?

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Uninterested is a related term of insouciant.


As adjectives the difference between uninterested and insouciant

is that uninterested is (obsolete) unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested while insouciant is carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.

uninterested

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Unmotivated by personal interest; unbiased, disinterested.
  • Not interested; indifferent, not concerned.
    • I was uninterested in the TV program, so I read a book instead.

    See also

    * disinterested

    insouciant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.
  • * 1903 , , "Cadiz" in The Land of The Blessed Virgin :
    • It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant .
  • * 1913 , , The Golden Road , ch. 3:
    • How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!
  • * 2004 April 26, , " 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."