remissness

English

Etymology

From remiss +‎ -ness.

Noun

remissness (plural remissnesses)

1. The characteristic of being remiss; carelessness; negligence; tardiness.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     Impunity and remissenes, for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth, but here the great art lyes to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion only is to work.