recklessness

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Etymology

From Middle English reklesnes, reklesnesse, rekelesnesse (also assibiliated as rechelesnes, reccheleesnesse), from Old English rēcelēasnes (“recklessness, carelessness, negligence”), equivalent to reckless +‎ -ness.

Noun

recklessness (usually uncountable, plural recklessnesses)

  1. The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.
    His recklessness repeatedly put him in danger.
    • 1834, L E L, chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 228:
      At such times, how we marvel at our usual recklessness, and pause, as it were, shrinking from the busy and inevitable current which is hurrying us on to eternity!

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