INCONSIDERATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsiderateness mean? 

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

1. the quality of failing to be considerate of others

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONSIDERATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of failing to be considerate of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inconsiderateness; inconsideration; thoughtlessness

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

unkindness (lack of sympathy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inconsiderateness"):

tactlessness (the quality of lacking tact)

bluntness (the quality of being direct and outspoken)

Derivation:

inconsiderate (lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others)

inconsiderate (without proper consideration or reflection)

 Context examples 

Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)