negligence

See also: négligence

English

Etymology

From Middle English necligence, negligence, from Old French negligence, from Latin neglegentia.

Noun

negligence (usually uncountable, plural negligences)

1. The state of being negligent.
2. (law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
3. (law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.

Usage notes

• The breach of a duty of care is one element of the tort of negligence, but is also called negligence; one must therefore take care to clarify what is meant.

Related terms

• negligent
• neglect
• endangerment

Translations

failure to exercise a standard of care (law)

• Armenian: անփութություն (hy) (anpʿutʿutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: нехайство (bg) n (nehajstvo), немарливост (bg) f (nemarlivost)
• Catalan: negligència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過失 (zh), 过失 (zh) (guòshī), 疏忽 (zh) (shūhu), 失職 (zh), 失职 (zh) (shīzhí)

• Czech: nedbalost f
• Dutch: nalatigheid (nl) f, achteloosheid (nl) f
• Finnish: huolimattomuus (fi) (general carelessness), heitteillejättö (fi) (neglect of a person)
• French: négligence coupable f
• Georgian: დაუდევრობა (daudevroba)
• German: Fahrlässigkeit (de) f
• Greek: αμέλεια (el) f (améleia)

  Ancient: ἀμέλεια f (améleia)

• Interlingua: negligentia
• Italian: negligenza (it) f

• Japanese: 過失 (ja) (かしつ, kashitsu), 疎か (ja) (おろそか, orosoka)
• Korean: 과실 (ko) (gwasil) (過失 (ko)), 소홀 (ko) (sohol) (疏忽 (ko))
• Latin: indiligentia f, neglegentia f, incūria f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uaktsomhet (no) m or f

• Portuguese: negligência (pt) f
• Romanian: neglijență (ro), delăsare (ro)
• Russian: хала́тность (ru) f (xalátnostʹ)
• Spanish: negligencia (es) f
• Tagalog: kutalay
• Telugu: నిర్లక్ష్యం (te) (nirlakṣyaṃ)
• Tocharian B: ykorñe
• Vietnamese: tính cẩu thả (vi), sự bất cẩn

Further reading

• negligence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Middle French

Noun

negligence f (uncountable)

1. negligence (state of being negligent)