imprudence

imprudence
    n 1: a lack of caution in practical affairs [ant: {prudence}]
    

Imprudence \Im*pru"dence\, n. [L. imprudentia: cf. F.
   imprudence. Cf. {Improvidence}.]
   The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution,
   circumspection, or a due regard to consequences;
   indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; also, an imprudent
   act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
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         His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own
         imprudence.                              --Mickle.
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78 Moby Thesaurus words for "imprudence":
      absurdity, act of folly, blunder, brashness, brass,
      brazen boldness, callowness, casualness, cheek, childishness,
      chutzpah, crudity of intellect, dumb trick, folly, gall, heroics,
      hubris, immaturity, improvidence, impudence, inadvisability,
      inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion,
      indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inexpedience,
      injudiciousness, insensibility, insensitivity, insolence,
      irrationality, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, overboldness,
      overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness,
      pompousness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, puerility, rashness,
      reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sottise, stuffiness,
      stupid thing, stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, temerariousness,
      temerity, thoughtlessness, unchariness, uncriticalness,
      undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness,
      unintelligence, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness,
      unreason, unreasonableness, unselectiveness, unsensibleness,
      unsoundness, untactfulness, unthoughtfulness, unwariness, unwisdom,
      unwise step, unwiseness, witlessness