inadvertence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ad=vert=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

inadvertence, n. [Cf. F. inadvertance.].

•  The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence.  [1913 Webster]

  "Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers."  [1913 Webster]
•  An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.  [1913 Webster]

  "The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact."

Syn. -- Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.

THESAURUS

inadvertence

absentmindedness, balk, bevue, carelessness, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, failure, false move, false step, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, giddiness, heedlessness, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, laxity, laxness, levity, lightmindedness, loose thread, looseness, miscue, misstep, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obliviousness, omission, overlooking, oversight, permissiveness, poor stewardship, procrastination, regardlessness, remissness, shallowness, slackness, slight, slip, slipup, stumble, superficiality, thoughtlessness, trip, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unrigorousness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, wrong step

ROGET THESAURUS

inadvertence

Inattention

N inattention, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, oversight, inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard, supineness, etourderie, want of thought, heedlessness, insouciance, abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction, inattentive, unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning, inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind, deaf, bird-witted, hand over head, cursory, percursory, giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele, offhand, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick, giddy, giddy as a goose, wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying, heedless, careless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted, distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought, rapt, in the clouds, bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied, engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard, napping, dreamy, caught napping, disconcerted, distracted, put out, inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly, per incuriam, sub silentio, Int, stand at ease, stand easy!, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you.