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Heedlessness

noun
1.
A lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people).  Synonym: inattentiveness.
2.
The trait of acting rashly and without prudence.  Synonyms: mindlessness, rashness.
3.
The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.  Synonyms: inadvertence, inadvertency, unmindfulness.






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"Heedlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... not be legal. No law could be drawn which would recognize a marriage of that character, and she knew that she had only to tell her father to have the machinery of the law set in motion. Could she tell him? Could she bear his reproaches, his pity, after her heedlessness? ...
— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer

... bleating, racing wildly up and down the forest, asking, by terrified looks and actions, "Have you seen my little dappled fawn? He is gone and there is strong bear-scent about the tree-top where I hid him." For several days she haunted the region and her anxiety and heedlessness of her own safety nearly caused her to fall a victim to the wary hunter, ...
— Black Bruin - The Biography of a Bear • Clarence Hawkes

... me see him, and help you in nursing him? It was for this purpose alone that I stayed here when all the others went. Let me at least be near him, that I may feel myself to be making such poor reparation as my heedlessness requires." ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... sentence was pronounced most disdainfully. The chorister, with head unbroken, and temper unruffled, arose and begged they might all be forgiven their heedlessness; it would be so great a disappointment to have the meeting broken up so prematurely, it would give them great pleasure if Uncle Mat would be so kind as to dispense with singing and proceed to prayers and exhortations. One or two other prominent members followed in much the same strain, ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee

... hold of the ship with a shining silver thong, that not the faintest breath might escape. Then he sent forth the blast of the West Wind to blow for me, to bear our ships and ourselves upon our way; but this he was never to bring to pass, for we were undone through our own heedlessness. ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.


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