About The Word Negligence
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Negligence
| Negligence Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Negligence?
[n] failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
[n] the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
Synonyms | Synonyms for Negligence: carelessness |
neglect |
neglect |
neglectfulness |
nonperformance
Related Terms | Find terms related to Negligence: 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
See Also | carelessness |
comparative negligence |
concurrent negligence |
contributory negligence |
criminal negligence |
culpable negligence |
delinquency |
dereliction |
dereliction |
dodging |
escape |
evasion |
laxity |
laxness |
neglect of duty |
nonaccomplishment |
nonachievement |
remissness |
willful neglect
Negligence In Webster's Dictionary
\Neg"li*gence\, n. [F. n['e]gligence, L.
negligentia.]
The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due
diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect;
heedlessness.
2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
remarking his beauties, . . . I must also point out
his negligences and defects. --Blair.
3. (Law) The omission of the care usual under the
circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A
specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his
specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability
for negligence varies acordingly.
{Contributory negligence}. See under {Contributory}.
Syn: Neglect; inattention; heedlessness; disregard; slight.
Usage: {Negligence}, {Neglect}. These two words are freely
interchanged in our older writers; but a distinction
has gradually sprung up between them. As now generally
used, negligence is the habit, and neglect the act, of
leaving things undone or unattended to. We are
negligent as a general trait of character; we are
guilty of neglect in particular cases, or in reference
to individuals who had a right to our attentions.
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