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heedlessness

  • a word derived from heedless.
    heedless
    adjective
    careless; thoughtless; unmindful.

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KK, the greatest in the Holy Koran, they give us a verse that says, man’s biggest flaw, his biggest weakness, is heedlessness.

From Washington Post Apr. 5, 2022

Certainly there are other years or periods in which stupidity or heedlessness brought civilization in general close to eradication.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2021

The result of that heedlessness, as we’ve seen in these pandemic months, is quite literally death.

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2020

The cascade of cases carries an unavoidable sense of Greek tragedy, of characters finally dragged down by their own heedlessness.

From Slate Oct. 5, 2020

And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer