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Answer for the clue "The trait of not being cautious and watchful ", 10 letters:
unwariness

Word definitions for unwariness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of not being cautious and watchful [ant: wariness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being unwary.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwariness \Un*wa"ri*ness\, n. The quality or state of being unwary; carelessness; heedlessness.

Usage examples of unwariness.

If he could convince Jacques, just long enough to lull the man into a moment's unwariness, he might get a single chance to .

Astonished that he had not noticed this before, and shocked at the unwariness by which he might have betrayed her into so dangerous a situation, he became at once reconciled to the idea of leaving her in a convent.

This, as I had learnt many years previously from a colleague who'd just had a bullet extracted from the lobe of his left lung because of this very unwariness, was a very unwise thing to do.