offhandedness

See also: off-handedness

English

From offhanded +‎ -ness.

offhandedness (uncountable)

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.