imprudence

From im- +‎ prudence. From Middle French imprudence, from Latin imprudentia.

imprudence (usually uncountable, plural imprudences)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.
2. (countable) An imprudent act.
   • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)‎:

     At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.

   • 1891, Francois Coppee, Ten Tales‎:

     Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences.

   • 1903, S.C. Hill, Three Frenchmen in Bengal‎:

     This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences.

   • 1906 – 1921, John Galsworthy, “Encounter”, in The Forsyte Saga, volume 1:

     He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.

(lack of prudence): indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness

• imprudence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imprudence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pʁy.dɑ̃s/

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imprudence f (plural imprudences)

1. imprudence, rashness

• imprudent

• “imprudence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).