RECKLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recklessness mean? 

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

1. the trait of giving little thought to danger

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECKLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of giving little thought to danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

foolhardiness; rashness; recklessness

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

thoughtlessness; unthoughtfulness (the trait of not thinking carefully before acting)

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

adventurism (recklessness in politics or foreign affairs)

brashness (the trait of being rash and hasty)

desperation (desperate recklessness)

Derivation:

reckless (marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences)

reckless (characterized by careless unconcern)

 Context examples 

Even Silver, eating away, with Captain Flint upon his shoulder, had not a word of blame for their recklessness.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She wanted to cry out at the recklessness of the thought, and in vain she appraised her own cleanness and culture and balanced all that she was against what he was not.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Think of his misery; think of his danger—look at his state when left alone; remember his headlong nature; consider the recklessness following on despair—soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)