Usually means: Casual or unthinking manner; dismissive.
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  1. offhandedness: Merriam-Webster
  2. offhandedness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offhandedness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. offhandedness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. offhandedness: Wiktionary
  6. offhandedness: Dictionary.com
  7. offhandedness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. offhandedness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The property of being offhand.

Similar:
flippantness, offishness, offness, light-handedness, disregardfulness, indirectness, unofficiousness, offbeatness, inofficiosity, tactlessness, more...

Opposite:
thoughtfulness, deliberation, carefulness

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Similar:
flippantness, offishness, offness, light-handedness, disregardfulness, indirectness, unofficiousness, offbeatness, inofficiosity, tactlessness, more...

Opposite:
thoughtfulness, deliberation, carefulness



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