Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being thoughtless; thoughtlessness.
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- noun The state or condition of being
unthoughtful .
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- noun the trait of not thinking carefully before acting
Etymologies
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unthoughtful + -ness
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Examples
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I really like what's happening, the thoughtfulness and the unthoughtfulness -- it's exciting.
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One saw gaiety, misery, fear, thoughtfulness and unthoughtfulness all mixed up like a kaleidoscope.
An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 William Orpen 1904
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Christmas-tide than can come home to the hearts of children and unthoughtfulness, and yet it had grown to be so painfully like other days, -- an occasion for a little bigger dinner, that was about all.
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories Annie Eliot Trumbull 1903
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