'Negligence' definitions:
Definition of 'negligence'
From: WordNet
noun
Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance]
noun
The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern [syn: negligence, neglect, neglectfulness]
Definition of 'Negligence'
From: GCIDE
- Negligence \Neg"li*gence\, n. [F. n['e]gligence, L. negligentia.] The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. [1913 Webster]
- remarking his beauties, . . . I must also point out his negligences and defects. --Blair. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. [1913 Webster]
- Contributory negligence. See under Contributory. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Neglect; inattention; heedlessness; disregard; slight.
- Usage: Negligence, Neglect. These two words are freely interchanged in our older writers; but a distinction has gradually sprung up between them. As now generally used, negligence is the habit, and neglect the act, of leaving things undone or unattended to. We are negligent as a general trait of character; we are guilty of neglect in particular cases, or in reference to individuals who had a right to our attentions. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'negligence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absentmindedness,
- accidia,
- acedia,
- allowance,
- apathy,
- approximation,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- bad policy,
- blowziness,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- chintziness,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- default,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- detachment,
- deviation,
- disconformity,
- disinterest,
- dispassion,
- disregard,
- disregardfulness,
- distraction,
- dowdiness,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- failing,
- failure,
- fecklessness,
- flightiness,
- flippancy,
- forgetfulness,
- frivolousness,
- frowziness,
- frumpishness,
- giddiness,
- grubbiness,
- hastiness,
- heedlessness,
- impolicy,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- improvidence,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- 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,
- misconduct,
- 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,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- remissness,
- seediness,
- shabbiness,
- shallowness,
- shiftlessness,
- shoddiness,
- slackness,
- slatternliness,
- slight,
- slipshodness,
- sloppiness,
- sloth,
- slovenliness,
- slovenry,
- sluttishness,
- softness,
- 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,
- weakness,
- wrongdoing