REMISSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remissness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being lax and neglectful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMISSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being lax and neglectful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

laxity; laxness; remissness; slackness

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

neglect; neglectfulness; negligence (the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern)

Derivation:

remiss (failing in what duty requires)

 Context examples 

Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With an apology for my remissness, I went into my own room to get the papers from my bag.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The general, meanwhile, though offended every morning by Frederick's remissness in writing, was free from any real anxiety about him, and had no more pressing solicitude than that of making Miss Morland's time at Northanger pass pleasantly.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But there he is, and, by the bye, his absence may sufficiently account for any remissness of his sister's in writing, for there has been no 'Well, Mary, when do you write to Fanny? Is not it time for you to write to Fanny?' to spur me on.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)