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imprudency

imprudency noun: the fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.

Noun

imprudency (countable and uncountable, plural imprudencies)

  1. (obsolete) The fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.
  2. (countable, obsolete) An imprudent act.
    • [T]he rival and the admirer would certainly avoid amending imprudencies, by which they were both equally likely to profit.1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 2, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I
    • I now most seriously do assure my Reader that she was entirely innocent; having never been guilty of anything more than Imprudencies into which she was betrayed by the openness of her Heart, her Youth, and her Education.1791, Jane Austen, “History of England”, in Juvenilia

Forms of imprudency

pluralimprudencies

Origin of imprudency

From Latin imprūdēntia.

Questions about imprudency

What does imprudency mean?
Imprudency means the fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.
What part of speech is imprudency?
Imprudency is a noun.
What is the plural of imprudency?
The plural of imprudency is imprudencies.

Words near imprudency in the dictionary

  1. improvvisatrici
  2. IMPRS-LS
  3. imprudence
  4. imprudences
  5. imprudencies
  6. imprudency
  7. imprudent
  8. imprudential
  9. imprudently
  10. imprudentness
  11. impræscriptible

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