Inattentiveness

Definitions: Inattentiveness

Inattentiveness

Noun

1. A lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people).

2. The trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others.

Synonym: Inattentiveness

Synonym: heedlessness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: attentiveness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Inattentiveness

English words defined with "inattentiveness": Incuriosity. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Additional symptoms exhibited by long-term inhalant abusers include weight loss, muscle weakness, disorientation, inattentiveness, lack of coordination, irritability, and depression. (references)
Economic History	Syria	In recent years, the agriculture sector has recovered from years of government inattentiveness and drought. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Inattentiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inattentiveness" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "inattentiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pavëmendje (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, obliviousness, oversight, wool gathering). (various references)

Arabic		‏غفلة (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, negligence, prepuce), ‏عدم إنتباه, ‏إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, limbo, malpractice, neglect, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness). (various references)

Bulgarian		невнимателност (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention). (various references)

Czech		nepozornost (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Finnish		tarkkaamattomuus (inattention). (various references)

French		inattention (inattention), négligence (inattention). (various references)

German		unaufmerksamkeit (distraction, inattention, nonattention, unobservance), Nachlässigkeit (carelessness, laxity, laxness, neglect, negligence, perfunctoriness, slackness, sloppiness, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Hebrew		אי �"קשב�" (inattention, listlessness), חוסר תשומת לב (inattention). (various references)

Hungarian		hanyagság (dereliction, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, indolence, laches, laxaty, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, recklessness, remissness, slothfulness), figyelmetlenség (abstraction, abstraction of mind, disregard, forgetfulness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, recklessness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不熱心 (indifference, lack of enthusiasm). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふねっし�" (indifference, lack of enthusiasm). (various references)

Pig Latin		inattentivenessay

Russian		невнимательность (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepažljivost (inattention, thoughtlessness), nemarnost (carelessness, negligence, sloppiness). (various references)

Spanish		desatento inatención. (various references)

Turkish		dikkatsizlik (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inobservance, negligence, oscitation, oversight, recklessness, want of care). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inattentiveness": inattentivenesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-n-s-s-t-t-t-v"
	-2 letters: attentiveness, tentativeness.
	-4 letters: inattentive.
	-5 letters: antivenins, innateness, insentient, intensives, intentness, intestates, intestines, nativeness, sententiae, teentsiest, tentatives.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-n-s-s-t-t-t-v"
	+2 letters: inattentivenesses.
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