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English
Etymology
From ir- + responsibility or irresponsible + -ity.
Noun
irresponsibility (countable and uncountable, plural irresponsibilities)
- The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.
1990 July 19, Ricardo Radulovich, “A view on tropical deforestation”, in Nature, volume 346, page 214:How important can the greenhouse effect, biodiversity or future worldwide timber shortages seem to a third-worlder, for example? It would be wrong to think of this third-worlder as irresponsible or as a squanderer of resources before serious steps are taken towards solving the well-known and much worse problem of resource squandering and environmental irresponsibility in the developed nations.
Translations
character or state of being irresponsible
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “irresponsibility”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “irresponsibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.