carelessness

English

Etymology

From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carlēasnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

carelessness (countable and uncountable, plural carelessnesses)

1. Lack of care.

   This accident was caused by carelessness.

Synonyms

• inattention
• negligence

Antonyms

• carefulness

Translations

lack of care

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗心 (zh) (cūxīn), 大意 (zh) (dàyì), 草率 (zh) (cǎoshuài)

• Czech: lehkomyslnost, nedbalost f
• Dutch: onvoorzichtigheid (nl), onoplettendheid (nl), achteloosheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malzorgeco, senzorgeco
• French: négligence (fr), incurie (fr) f
• German: Unvorsichtigkeit f, Leichtsinn (de) m
• Irish: leibideacht f

• Italian: negligenza (it) f
• Japanese: 軽率 (ja) (けいそつ, kēsotsu), 不注意 (ふちゅうい, fuchūi)
• Polish: lekkomyślność (pl)
• Portuguese: descuido (pt) m, negligência (pt) f
• Russian: беззабо́тность (ru) (bezzabótnostʹ), легкомы́сленность (ru) (lexkomýslennostʹ), легкомы́слие (ru) n (lexkomýslije)
• Serbo-Croatian: nȅmār (sh) m, nèbriga (sh) f
• Spanish: descuido (es) m, imprudencia (es) f, negligencia (es) f
• Swedish: vårdslöshet (sv) c, oaktsamhet (sv) c

Related terms

• careless

Anagrams

• racelessness