heedlessness
n 1: a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
[syn: {inattentiveness}, {heedlessness}] [ant:
{attentiveness}, {heed}, {paying attention}, {regard}]
2: the trait of acting rashly and without prudence [syn:
{heedlessness}, {mindlessness}, {rashness}]
3: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
[syn: {unmindfulness}, {heedlessness}, {inadvertence},
{inadvertency}] [ant: {heedfulness}, {mindfulness}]
Heedless \Heed"less\, a.
Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless;
unobservant.
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O, negligent and heedless discipline! --Shak.
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The heedless lover does not know
Whose eyes they are that wound him so. --Waller.
-- {Heed"less*ly}, adv. -- {Heed"less*ness}, n.
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