IRRESPONSIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irresponsibility mean? 

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

1. a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRESPONSIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

irresponsibility; irresponsibleness

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

untrustiness; untrustworthiness (the trait of not deserving trust or confidence)

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

undependability; undependableness; unreliability; unreliableness (the trait of not being dependable or reliable)

arbitrariness; capriciousness; flightiness; whimsey; whimsicality; whimsy (the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment)

carefreeness (the trait of being without worry or responsibility)

Antonym:

responsibility (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)

Derivation:

irresponsible (showing lack of care for consequences)

 Context examples 

Irresponsibility had weakened him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)