'nonfeasance' definitions:
Definition of 'nonfeasance'
(from WordNet)
noun
A failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do
Synonyms of 'nonfeasance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- atrocity,
- bad policy,
- breach,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- deadly sin,
- default,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- disconformity,
- disregard,
- endless task,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil,
- failure,
- fault,
- felony,
- genocide,
- guilty act,
- heavy sin,
- impolicy,
- impropriety,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- indiscretion,
- inexecution,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inexpiable sin,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- inobservance,
- laches,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- loose ends,
- looseness,
- maladministration,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malum,
- minor wrong,
- misadministration,
- misconduct,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdirection,
- misfeasance,
- misgovernment,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- misrule,
- mortal sin,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- nonaccomplishment,
- nonachievement,
- nonadherence,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsummation,
- nondischarging,
- nonexecution,
- nonfulfillment,
- noninterference,
- nonobservance,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- overlooking,
- oversight,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- permissiveness,
- poor stewardship,
- procrastination,
- remissness,
- rough edges,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- Sisyphean labor,
- slackness,
- slight,
- slip,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unfulfillment,
- unobservance,
- unrigorousness,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- work of Penelope,
- wrong,
- wrongdoing