negligence as a noun: - 1
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negligence
noun
1 negligence
Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.
synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance.
Roget 460:
neglect;
carelessness
etc.
adj.;
trifling
etc.
v.;
negligence;
omission,
oversight,
laches [Law],
default;
supineness
etc.
(inactivity)
683;
inattention
etc.
458;
nonchalance
etc.
(insensibility)
823;
imprudence,
recklessness
etc.
863;
slovenliness
etc.
(disorder)
59,
(dirt)
653;
improvidence
etc.
674;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
inexactness
etc.
(error)
495.
paralipsis,
paralepsis,
paraleipsis
(in rhetoric).
trifler,
waiter on Providence;
Micawber.
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Dutch: nalatigheid, achteloosheid, verwaarlozing
Polish: uchybienie
2 negligence
The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.
synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness.
Polish: niedbałość, nieobowiązkowość, niedbalstwo
Moby thesaurus: absentmindedness, accidia, acedia, allowance, apathy, approximation, ataraxia, ataraxy, bad policy, blowziness, carelessness, casualness, chintziness, culpa, culpable negligence, default, delinquency, dereliction, detachment, deviation, disconformity, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dowdiness, easiness, easygoingness, failing, failure, fecklessness, flightiness, flippancy, forgetfulness, frivolousness, frowziness, frumpishness, giddiness, grubbiness, hastiness, heedlessness, impolicy, impotence, imprecision, improvidence, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incorrectness, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexactitude, inexactness, inexcitability, inexpedience, inexpediency, inobservance, insouciance, laches, lack of affect, lackadaisicalness, laissez-faire, lapse, lax stewardship, laxity, laxness, leniency, levity, lightmindedness, listlessness, looseness, loosening, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, messiness, mindlessness, misadministration, misconduct, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, neglect, neglectfulness, nonadherence, nonchalance, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obliviousness, omission, oscitancy, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, oversight, permissiveness, pococurantism, poor husbandry, poor stewardship, predictable error, probable error, procrastination, recklessness, regardlessness, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, seediness, shabbiness, shallowness, shiftlessness, shoddiness, slackness, slatternliness, slight, slipshodness, sloppiness, sloth, slovenliness, slovenry, sluttishness, softness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, standard deviation, superficiality, tackiness, tawdriness, thoughtlessness, thriftlessness, tolerance, unalertness, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unneatness, unobservance, unpreciseness, unrestraint, unrigorousness, unsolicitousness, untidiness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, weakness, wrongdoing ... show more.
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