INADVERTENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inadvertency mean? 

• INADVERTENCY (noun)
  The noun INADVERTENCY has 1 sense:

1. the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities

  Familiarity information: INADVERTENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INADVERTENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heedlessness; inadvertence; inadvertency; unmindfulness

Hypernyms ("inadvertency" is a kind of...):

attentiveness (the trait of being observant and paying attention)

Derivation:

inadvertent (happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally)

 Context examples 

We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness." And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)