irresponsibility

English

Etymology

From ir- +‎ responsibility or irresponsible +‎ -ity.

Noun

irresponsibility (countable and uncountable, plural irresponsibilities)

1. The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.
   • 1990 July 19, Ricardo Radulovich, “A view on tropical deforestation”, in Nature‎^[1], volume 346, page 214:

     How important can the greenhouse effect, biodiversity or future worldwide timber shortages seem to a third-worlder, for example? It would be wrong to think of this third-worlder as irresponsible or as a squanderer of resources before serious steps are taken towards solving the well-known and much worse problem of resource squandering and environmental irresponsibility in the developed nations.

Translations

character or state of being irresponsible

• Asturian: irresponsabilidá f
• Bulgarian: безотговорност (bg) f (bezotgovornost)
• Catalan: irresponsabilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不負責任 / 不负责任 (bù fùzérèn), 無責任 / 无责任 (zh) (wúzérèn)

• Czech: neodpovědnost f
• Danish: ansvarsløshed c, uansvarlighed c
• Finnish: vastuuttomuus (fi)
• French: irresponsabilité (fr) f
• Galician: irresponsabilidade (gl) f
• Georgian: უპასუხისმგებლობა (uṗasuxismgebloba)
• German: Verantwortungslosigkeit (de) f, Unverantwortlichkeit f
• Greek: ανευθυνότητα (el) f (anefthynótita)
• Hungarian: felelőtlenség (hu)
• Irish: neamhfhreagracht f
• Italian: irresponsabilità (it) f
• Japanese: 無責任 (ja) (むせきにん, musekinin)
• Latvian: bezatbildība f
• Polish: nieodpowiedzialność (pl) f
• Portuguese: irresponsabilidade (pt) f
• Russian: безотве́тственность (ru) f (bezotvétstvennostʹ)
• Spanish: irresponsabilidad (es) f
• Swedish: ansvarslöshet (sv) c, oansvarighet c
• Ukrainian: безвідповіда́льність (uk) f (bezvidpovidálʹnistʹ)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irresponsibility”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “irresponsibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.