Chalance
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chalance is a noun meaning An attitude of seriousness and earnestness.
Meaning
An attitude of seriousness and earnestness.
Example Sentences
But their nonchalance is too earnest: the effect is chalance.
I still felt cranked up, but Nat's chalance had been surgically removed years ago and he was perfectly at ease.
The example I began with involved important news, and so some sense of shock, but chalance is more usually felt at unchanging matters of importance to us, not reserved for changes in the landscape of the important.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gravitas, solemnity, solemnness, balancedness, seriousness, seriosity.
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