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Looking unbothered requires more effort than looking like you tried.
means A light, casual, unworried manner — easygoing confidence that treats nothing as a big deal.
from Rooted in 'breeze,' a word English likely picked up from Spanish/Portuguese 'briza,' a sailor's term for a cool, steady trade wind. 'Breezy' first described weather, then by the 1800s drifted ashore to describe people — someone whose manner moved as lightly and casually as good sailing weather. 'Breeziness' just nouns that drift into a trait.
- etymology
- borrowed from wind, which also commits to nothing
- actual function
- signals low stakes while stakes remain high
- tell
- overuse of casual exclamation points
- paradox
- the breezier it looks, the longer it took