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Definition of Heedlessness

1. Noun. A lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people).

2. Noun. The trait of acting rashly and without prudence.

3. Noun. The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.

Definition of Heedlessness

1. Noun. The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness. ¹

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Definition of Heedlessness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heedlessness

heebie jeebies heebs heed heeded heeder heeders heedful heedfull heedfully heedfulness

heedfulnesses heedily heeding heedless heedlessly heedlessness (current term) heedlessnesses heeds heedy heeey

heehaw heehawed heehawing heehaws heel heel-to-shin test heel bone heel fly heel jar heel lift

Literary usage of Heedlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"As I shall shew hereafter, intention, negligence, heedlessness, intention, or rashness, is an essentially component part of injury or wrong; ..."

2. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"Closely related to negligence is heedlessness, the difference between them being seemingly greater than it really is. Whilst the negligent man omits an act ..."

3. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"And if these are satisfied, all holy creatures will and must be completely satisfied, and filled with delight. [See 165.] 425. heedlessness. Seeker. ..."

4. Principles of the Law of Torts by Francis Taylor Piggott (1885)
"heedlessness and reckless- ness not inde- law. tort there must be implied a ... Thus it appears that in legal phraseology heedlessness and recklessness have ..."

5. Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century by Pardoe (Julia) (1855)
"Liberality—heedlessness and ready Wit of the Dauphiness — The fatal Present—The Dauphiness poisoned; her Death—Regrets of (he Nation—Sickness and Death of ..."

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