negligence
159 synonyms found
- absentmindedness
- accidia
- acedia
- allowance
- apathy
- ataraxia
- ataraxy
- bad policy
- blowziness
- casualness
- chintziness
- culpa
- culpable negligence
- default
- delinquency
- dereliction
- detachment
- deviation
- disconformity
- disinterest
- dispassion
- disregard
- disregardfulness
- distraction
- dowdiness
- easiness
- easygoingness
- failing
- fecklessness
- flightiness
- flippancy
- forgetfulness
- frivolousness
- frowziness
- frumpishness
- giddiness
- grubbiness
- hastiness
- heedlessness
- impolicy
- impotence
- imprecision
- improvidence
- inaccuracy
- inaccurateness
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- inattentiveness
- inconsideration
- incorrectness
- incuriosity
- indifference
- indiscrimination
- inexactitude
- inexactness
- inexcitability
- inexpedience
- inexpediency
- inobservance
- insouciance
- laches
- lack of affect
- lackadaisicalness
- laissez-faire
- lapse
- lax stewardship
- laxity
- laxness
- leniency
- levity
- lightmindedness
- listlessness
- looseness
- loosening
- maladministration
- malfeasance
- malpractice
- messiness
- mindlessness
- misadministration
- misdirection
- misfeasance
- misgovernment
- misguidance
- mishandling
- mismanagement
- misrule
- neglect
- neglectfulness
- nonadherence
- nonchalance
- noncompliance
- nonconformance
- nonconformity
- nonfeasance
- nonfulfillment
- noninterference
- nonobservance
- nonperformance
- nonrestriction
- obliviousness
- omission
- oscitancy
- overindulgence
- overlooking
- overpermissiveness
- oversight
- permissiveness
- pococurantism
- poor husbandry
- poor stewardship
- predictable error
- probable error
- procrastination
- recklessness
- regardlessness
- relaxedness
- remissness
- seediness
- shabbiness
- shallowness
- shiftlessness
- shoddiness
- slackness
- slatternliness
- slipshodness
- slovenliness
- slovenry
- sluttishness
- sordidness
- squalidness
- squalor
- standard deviation
- superficiality
- tackiness
- tawdriness
- thoughtlessness
- thriftlessness
- tolerance
- unalertness
- unanxiousness
- unawareness
- unconcern
- unconsciousness
- uncorrectness
- unfactualness
- unheedfulness
- unintentiveness
- unmindfulness
- unneatness
- unobservance
- unpreciseness
- unrestraint
- unrigorousness
- unsolicitousness
- untidiness
- unwariness
- unwatchfulness
- wrongdoing
Definition
(n) :
the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation; any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury