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irresponsibleness

Definitions of irresponsibleness
  1. noun
    a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions
    synonyms: irresponsibility
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    antonyms:
    responsibleness
    a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct
    types:
    undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness
    the trait of not being dependable or reliable
    arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy
    the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
    carefreeness
    the trait of being without worry or responsibility
    indifference, nonchalance, unconcern
    the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern
    instability
    unreliability attributable to being unstable
    irreproducibility
    the quality of being unreproducible
    fallibility
    the likelihood of making errors
    type of:
    untrustiness, untrustworthiness
    the trait of not deserving trust or confidence
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