Thesaurus: inadvertence

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1. n. Alt. of Inadvertency
2. n. an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
3. n. the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
4. 1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor. 2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison. Syn. -- Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention.
5. n:100 n an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something n the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities