irresponsibleness

ir·re·spon·si·ble  (r-spns-bl)

adj.

1. Marked by a lack of responsibility: irresponsible accusations.

2. Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy.

3. Law Not mentally or financially fit to assume responsibility.

4. Not liable to be called to account by a higher authority.

n.

1. One who has no sense of responsibility.

2. Law One who is mentally or financially unfit to assume responsibility for one's actions.

3. One who is unlikely to be called to account by a higher authority.

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irre·sponsi·bili·ty, irre·sponsi·ble·ness n.

irre·sponsi·bly adv.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

irresponsibleness - a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions irresponsibility untrustiness, untrustworthiness - the trait of not deserving trust or confidence undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness - the trait of not being dependable or reliable arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness - the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" carefreeness - the trait of being without worry or responsibility responsibleness, responsibility - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility"