Meaning of IMPRUDENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `impr'ooduns
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| | Definition: | | [n] a lack of caution in practical affairs |
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| | Antonyms: | | prudence | | |
| | See Also: | | heedlessness, improvidence, incaution, incautiousness, mindlessness, rashness, shortsightedness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, act of folly, blunder, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, callowness, casualness, cheek, childishness, chutzpah, crudity of intellect, dumb trick, folly, gall, heroics, hubris, immaturity, improvidence, impudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inexpedience, injudiciousness, insensibility, insensitivity, insolence, irrationality, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, pompousness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, puerility, rashness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sottise, stuffiness, stupid thing, stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unchariness, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unintelligence, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness, unreason, unreasonableness, unselectiveness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, untactfulness, unthoughtfulness, unwariness, unwisdom, unwise step, unwiseness, witlessness |
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