heedlessness
- n a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
- n the trait of acting rashly and without prudence
- n the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
- There have always been some Cambridge cops who are deeply resentful of the attitudes (and occasional heedlessness) of entitled academics.
- Gas rationing and heedlessness of high prices have cut down the sales by chains and supermarkets, and have boosted the neighborhood grocer's business.
- The lads almost immediately encounter a funny, violent, nutsy kid (Black), and you know right away that his heedlessness is going to cause them a lot of bother.