offhandedness

See also: off-handedness

English

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Etymology

From offhanded +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɑfˈhændədnəs/

Noun

offhandedness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being offhand.
    Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.
    • 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67:
      In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.

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