Thoughtlessness

Definitions: Thoughtlessness

Thoughtlessness

Noun

1. The quality of failing to be considerate of others.

2. The trait of not thinking carefully before acting.

Date "thoughtlessness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Thoughtlessness

Synonyms: inconsiderateness (n), inconsideration (n), unthoughtfulness (n). (additional references)

Antonyms: consideration (n), thoughtfulness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Incogitancy	Noun: incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding; fatuity; thoughtlessness; (inattention); vacuity.
Rashness	Foolhardihood, foolhardiness; heedlessness, thoughtlessness; (inattention); carelessness; (neglect); desperation; Quixotism, knight-errantry; fire eating.
Unskillfulness	Folly, stupidity; indiscretion; (rashness); thoughtlessness; (inattention) (neglect); sabotage.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Thoughtlessness

English words defined with "thoughtlessness": Incogitancy, Inconsideracy ♦ thoughtlessly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thoughtlessness": Radish. (references)

Etymologies containing "thoughtlessness": Inconsideracy. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Told me once, in a moment of thoughtlessness, his father was sixtyone when he was born.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Thoughtlessness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thoughtlessness" is used about 25 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%	25	69,787

Language		Translations for "thoughtlessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkujdesje (carelessness, disregard, ease, improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laxity, lightness, negligence, unconcern, untidiness). (various references)

Arabic		‏عدم المراعاة, ‏عدم التفكير, ‏عدم إكتراث (apathy, impoliteness, indifference, nonchalance), ‏طيش (foolishness, frivolity, impetuosity, imprudence, indiscretion, inexpediency, levity, libertinism, light-heartedness, lightness, prank, puerility, rashness, recklessness, temerity, unwisdom). (various references)

Bulgarian		необмисленост (imprudence, inconsideration, indiscretion, precipitance, precipitation, prematurity, rashness). (various references)

Czech		nepozornost (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness), bezohlednost (disregard, lack of consideration, recklessness), bezmyšlenkovitost (mindlessness). (various references)

Finnish		ajattelemattomuus (indiscretion, lack of consideration). (various references)

French		manque de prévenance, manque d'égards, légèreté (thinness), irréflexion, inconscience, étourderie. (various references)

German		rücksichtslosigkeit (inconsiderateness, recklessness, ruthlessness), nachlässigkeit (carelessness, inattentiveness, laxity, laxness, neglect, negligence, perfunctoriness, slackness, sloppiness), leichtsinnigkeit (foolishness, frivolity), leichtsinn (carelessness, flippancy, foolishness, frivolousness, giddiness, improvidence, levity, rashness, recklessness), leichtfertigkeit (carelessness, easygoing nature, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, levity, light-headedness), bedenkenlosigkeit (promptness, readiness, unscrupulousness), achtlosigkeit (carelessness). (various references)

Greek		απερισκεψία (incausiousness, indiscretion, rashness, recklessness). (various references)

Hebrew		חוסר מחשבה. (various references)

Hungarian		meggondolatlanság (foolhardiness, impetuosity, imprudence, impudence, irresponsibility, precipitation, rashness, recklessness). (various references)

Italian		sconsideratezza (carelessness, inconsiderateness), irresponsabilità (irresponsibility). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無思慮 (indiscretion), 無分別 (indiscretion), 浅慮 (imprudence, indiscretion), 不料簡 (bad idea), 不注意 (carelessness, inattention). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふりょうけん (bad idea, indiscretion), ふちゅうい (carelessness, inattention), せんりょ (imprudence, indiscretion, much thought), むしりょ (indiscretion), むふんべつ (indiscretion). (various references)

Manx		meerioose (carelessness, inattention, neglect, negligence, omission), meehastid (absenteeism, absenteeism landlord, heedlessness, inattention, oversight), antort (inattention). (various references)

Pig Latin		oughtlessnessthay

Romanian		pripealã (temerity), nechibzuinţã (improvidence, imprudence, indiscretion, rashness, recklessness), frivolitate (flightiness, flippancy, frailty, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, levity, wantonness), aiurealã (babble, confusion, flurry, fuss, hubbub, muss, raving, rigmarole, tomfoolery, twaddle). (various references)

Russian		недомыслие (stupidity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		siromašnost u mislima, nesmotrenost (improvidence, imprudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, recklessness), nepromišljenost (light-head, mindlessness, unwisdom), nepažljivost (inattention, inattentiveness), neljubaznost (unfriendliness, unkindness). (various references)

Spanish		irreflexión (impetuosity, rashness), inconsideración (recklessness), inconsciencia (insensibility), desconsideración. (various references)

Turkish		kaygısızlık (freedom from care, unconcern), düşüncesizlik (blindness, flightiness, headiness, imprudence, impulsiveness, inconsiderateness, indiscretion, levity, offhandedness, recklessness, wantonness), düşüncesizce edilmiş lâf. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	incogitania. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-h-l-n-o-s-s-s-s-t-t-u"
	-4 letters: gutlessness, stoutnesses, thoughtless, toughnesses.
	-5 letters: lostnesses, lushnesses, slungshots, tongueless.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-h-l-n-o-s-s-s-s-t-t-u"
	+2 letters: thoughtlessnesses.
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