unmindfulness

Questions about unmindfulness

What does unmindfulness mean?

unmindfulness means "the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities".

How many syllables are in unmindfulness?

unmindfulness has 4 syllables and divides as un-mind-ful-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unmindfulness?

Close synonyms include heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unmindfulness?

The recorded antonyms are mindfulness.

Is unmindfulness a common word?

unmindfulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.