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How to pronounce heedlessness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms inattentiveness
Type of inattention
Derivation heedless
Type Words
Synonyms mindlessness, rashness
Type of imprudence
Has types lightheadedness
Derivation heedless
Type Words
Synonyms inadvertence, inadvertency, unmindfulness
Type of attentiveness

Examples of heedlessness

heedlessness
It is the reviver from the sleep of heedlessness, the bridge to the One remembered.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The long prosperity has produced a certain heedlessness about the economic facts of life.
From the time.com
The photo places their presumption, the heedlessness of their design, in ironic high relief.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet beneath the heedlessness runs a countercurrent of anxiety.
From the time.com
Heedlessness in small but annoying ways.
From the sfgate.com
Their crimes stem not so much from innate evil as from heedlessness, impulsiveness, mental disorder and immaturity.
From the time.com
Midler subtly conveys that Sue has begun to feel the soft sting of her feisty heedlessness beginning to bite back.
From the nytimes.com
Rather, our very heedlessness of international soccer values has made us ignorant of women's historical exclusion from the sport.
From the theatlantic.com
If the book were a simple pitting of Emily's keen ambition against Jess'enthusiastic heedlessness, it would be an enjoyable but unmemorable read.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • Inattentiveness: a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
  • The trait of acting rashly and without prudence
  • Unmindfulness: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
  • (heedless) marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying"
  • (heedless) characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds"
  • (heedlessly) carelessly: without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"
  • The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness
  • (heedless) unaware, without noticing