negligencia

See also: negligência

Portuguese

Verb

negligencia

1. inflection of negligenciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negligentia, variant of neglegentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neɡliˈxenθja/ [ne.ɣ̞liˈxẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /neɡliˈxensja/ [ne.ɣ̞liˈxẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ne‧gli‧gen‧cia

Noun

negligencia f (plural negligencias)

1. negligence, neglect

   Synonym: pigricia

2. malpractice

Related terms

• negligir

Further reading

• “negligencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025