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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities [syn: unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency] [ant: heedfulness, mindfulness]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cies) Date: 1592 inadvertence

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inadvertence In`ad*vert"ence; pl. -ces, Inadvertency In`ad*vert"en*cy; pl. -cies, n. [Cf. F. inadvertance.] 1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. --Jer. Taylor. 2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. --Addison. Syn: Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See inadvertence