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• n  a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
• n  the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others

• That inattentiveness has already proven costly.
• Wily Ted counts on Beachum's inattentiveness, but doesn't count on the young lawyer's scrappy spirit, his growing sense that justice must be done before ambition can be served.
• The kids' teachers filled out a questionnaire in which they rated each child's degree of inattentiveness, distractibility and hyperactivity on a scale of 1 to 9.

• heedlessness

• attentiveness

News & Articles

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• The Jury Saw the Truth
  It looks like greedy insurance carriers are not limited to the United States. A Vancouver woman recently won a $466K lawsuit against her husband after she suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident in which he was the driver. Her husband admitted that his inattentiveness caused him to swerve his motorcycle in order to avoid [...]
  Aug. 13, 2013 - Injury Board

Quotes

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• Lynne Kosky in Sydney Morning Herald
  The first is inattentiveness, the second is those drivers who make deliberate decisions to flout the law and the third is those who are not aware of the requirements,Ms Kosky said.
• Graeme Sturges in Tasmania Mercury
  It is incredibly sad and disappointing to see that irresponsible behaviours such as speeding, inattentiveness, alcohol and drugs are still major contributing factors in serious crashes,Mr Sturges said.
• John Dingell in Kyiv Post
  Still, Dingell said in a statement: "Only this administration, as a result of inattentiveness or incompetence, would send taxpayer dollars to the Iranian nuclear program through a US-Russian program intended to block nuclear proliferation."