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say it: NEH-gluh-juhns
negligence is a noun meaning "failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances". It is pronounced /ˈnɛɡlədʒəns/ — NEH-gluh-juhns. It carries 2 recorded senses.
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for negligence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.