[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being unconcerned; freedom from anxiety; indifference.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 46. So little dejected with it, that he answered the Articles with great steddyness, and unconcernedness.
1675. Wycherley, Country Wife, V. i. To shew my unconcernedness, I’ll come to your wedding.
1738. Gray, Lett., Poems (1775), 36. My resolution and unconcernedness in the midst of evils.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 65. To attain a perfect unconcernedness at everything past,… is more plausible in theory, than feasible in practice.
1800. Mrs. Hervey, Mourtray Fam., I. 9. He possessed great equanimity of temper, and a quiet unconcernedness of mind.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 290. This union of inherent strength and unconcernedness about foreign aid is an adequate test of days anterior to Ahaz.
