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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 othersplay

  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)



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