Hypertext Webster Gateway: "imprudence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Imprudence \Im*pru"dence\, n. [L. imprudentia: cf. F.
imprudence. Cf. {Improvidence}.]
The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution,
circumspection, or a due regard to consequences;
indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent
act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own
imprudence. --Mickle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
imprudence
n : a lack of caution in practical affairs [ant: {prudence}]
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