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carelessness

noun
/ˈkɛɹləsnəs/US/ˈkɛələsnəs/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der. Proto-Germanic *karō Proto-West Germanic *karu Old English caru Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Old English carlēas Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English carlēasnes Middle English *carelesnes English carelessness From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carlēasnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless + -ness.

  1. inherited from carlēasnes — “freedom from care, security, carelessness”
  2. inherited from *carelesnes✻

Definitions

  1. Lack of care

    Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.

    • This accident was caused by carelessness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at carelessness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01carelessness02lack03defect04malfunction05failure06omission07neglecting08neglect

A definitional loop anchored at carelessness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at carelessness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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