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All neglectfulness synonyms

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noun neglectfulness

  • apathy — You can use apathy to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything.
  • inertia — inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
  • lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
  • negligence — the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
  • sloth — habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
  • weariness — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
  • dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
  • dormancy — the state of being dormant.
  • dreaminess — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
  • drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
  • dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
  • faineance — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
  • heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
  • idleness — the quality, state, or condition of being lazy, inactive, or idle: His lack of interest in the larger world and his consummate idleness were the causes of their dreadful divorce.
  • inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
  • indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
  • inertness — having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active): inert matter.
  • laxness — Halldór Kiljan [hahl-dohr kil-yahn] /ˈhɑl doʊr ˈkɪl yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1902–98, Icelandic writer: Nobel Prize 1955.
  • leisureliness — The property of being leisurely.
  • listlessness — having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake.
  • passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
  • remissness — negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.: He's terribly remiss in his work.
  • slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  • sleepily — ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
  • sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
  • stolidity — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
  • tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
  • faineancy — Synonym of faineance.
  • lackadaisicalness — without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
  • languidness — The property of being languid.
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • leadenness — The quality of being leaden.
  • otiosity — being at leisure; idle; indolent.
  • supineness — lying on the back, face or front upward.
  • default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
  • failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
  • carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
  • dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
  • lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
  • oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
  • chaos — Chaos is a state of complete disorder and confusion.
  • delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
  • delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
  • dilapidation — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • laxity — the state or quality of being lax; looseness.
  • limbo — (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
  • omission — the act of omitting.
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