advertent

adj
/ədˈvɜːtn̩t/UK/ədˈvɝtn̩t/US

Etymology

Apparently a back-formation from inadvertent, or a learned borrowing from Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“to give or draw attention to”)

  1. learned borrowing from advertent

Definitions

  1. Attentive.

    • Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported
  2. Not inadvertent

    Not inadvertent; intentional.

    • There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
    • Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for advertent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA