advertent
English
editEtymology
editApparently back-formation from inadvertent.
Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“I give or draw attention to”)
Adjective
editadvertent (comparative more advertent, superlative most advertent)
- Attentive.
- 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227:
- Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported
- Not inadvertent; intentional.
- 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442:
- There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
- 1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283:
- Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]
Usage notes
edit- This term is much rarer than its opposite inadvertent.
Synonyms
edit- (intentional): deliberate, purposeful, purposive, see Thesaurus:intentional
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “intentional”): inadvertent
Derived terms
editLatin
editVerb
editadvertent