offhandedness
nounUS /ˌɑfˈhændədnəs/
Etymology From offhanded + -ness.
1
The property of being offhand.
- Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.
- 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.2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67: