NOUN
- a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
- the trait of acting rashly and without prudence
- the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
How To Use heedlessness In A Sentence
- Yet Lincoln, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, "took upon himself the whole blame—said it was carelessness, heedlessness on his part—he ought to have been more attentive. Lessons of Fort Sumter
- I know not how long they shall ride the steed of desire and wander erringly in the desert of heedlessness and error. A Traveler’s Narrative
- Shes not entirely careless about her physical well being, but the doughnuts represent a certain heedlessness in her desire to appease her appetites. Elizabeth Strout - An interview with author
- She might seem, indeed, like himself, rather a "visitant" than an inhabitant of this planet, and their courtship not unlike one of his own stories of half immaterial lovers who go hand in hand, with sentiments for sentences and great heedlessness of mortal matters, to an idyllic union of hearts. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- For several years, as might naturally have been expected, the callant was a perfect dead-weight on the concern, and perhaps, in her hours of greater distress, the widow regretted the heedlessness of her Christian charity; but Charlie had a winning way with him, and she could not find it in her heart to turn him to the door. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
- The grim little smile upon her lips when one big girl above Ruth went down before "forswear," spelling it with an extra "e," showed that the teacher considered the miss deserved to fail because of her heedlessness. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
- It is impossible to achieve genuine distinction without a certain heedlessness of public opinion.
- There remained but one hope: to ascribe the unavertible death of her husband to some accident, some heedlessness. The Indian Lily and Other Stories
- But the inherited trait that shows more prominently is a kind of heedlessness, a stubborn belief that the Kennedys can live above the rules. The Camelot Curse