Imprudence

n.

1.

The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own imprudence. - Mickle.

Noun

1.

imprudence - a lack of caution in practical affairs Antonyms: prudence - discretion in practical affairs

absurdity, act of folly, blunder, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, callowness, casualness, cheek, childishness, chutzpah, crudity of intellect, dumb trick, folly, gall, heroics, hubris, immaturity, improvidence, impudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inexpedience, injudiciousness, insensibility, insensitivity, insolence, irrationality, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, pompousness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, puerility, rashness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sottise, stuffiness, stupid thing, stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unchariness, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unintelligence, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness, unreason, unreasonableness, unselectiveness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, untactfulness, unthoughtfulness, unwariness, unwisdom, unwise step, unwiseness, witlessness

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