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INCONSIDERATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsideration mean?
• INCONSIDERATION (noun)
The noun INCONSIDERATION has 1 sense:
1. the quality of failing to be considerate of others
Familiarity information: INCONSIDERATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("inconsideration" is a kind of...):
unkindness (lack of sympathy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inconsideration"):
tactlessness (the quality of lacking tact)
bluntness (the quality of being direct and outspoken)
Antonym:
consideration (kind and considerate regard for others)
Context examples
He has had great faults, faults of inconsideration and thoughtlessness; and I am very much of his opinion in thinking him likely to be happier than he deserves: but still as he is, beyond a doubt, really attached to Miss Fairfax, and will soon, it may be hoped, have the advantage of being constantly with her, I am very ready to believe his character will improve, and acquire from hers the steadiness and delicacy of principle that it wants.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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