The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.

synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, unmindfulness.

Roget 458: inattention, inconsideration; inconsiderateness etc. adj.; oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard.    supineness etc. (inactivity) 683; etourderie [Fr.], want of thought; heedlessness etc. (neglect) 460; insouciance etc. (indifference) 866.    abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction.    ... show more