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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irresponsibility

Irresponsibility \Ir`re*spon`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. irresponsabilit['e].]

  1. Lack of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.

  2. A trait causing one to act without a proper sense of responsibility; acting without giving proper weight to one's responsibilities.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irresponsibility

1818; see irresponsible + -ity.

Wiktionary
irresponsibility

n. The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.

WordNet
irresponsibility

n. a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions [syn: irresponsibleness] [ant: responsibility, responsibility]

Usage examples of "irresponsibility".

American moral and intellectual emancipation can be achieved only by a victory over the ideas, the conditions, and the standards which make Americanism tantamount to collective irresponsibility and to the moral and intellectual subordination of the individual to a commonplace popular average.

She would tell it to Freddy if the kid were not so utterly idiotic and likely to blab everything she knew out of sheer childish irresponsibility.

In my opinion, it would be the crassest irresponsibility not to take full advantage—for the nation's benefit—of the unique opportunity that it represents.

In my opinion, it would be the crassest irresponsibility not to take full advantage-for the nation’s ­benefit-of the unique opportunity that it represents.

Its rule combines the disadvantage of absolute monarchy with the impersonality and irresponsibility of democratic officialdom.

Ms Blondie Prime-time talks about the irresponsibility of Israeli defense policy.

Our debt is the result of our own sinful irresponsibility in fiscal matters, and we must accept the consequences of those sins.

The crowd still poured through the main gate, jamming the courtyard, individual faces that he had seen all his life on the streets and in the piazzas, quiet, good-natured people, suddenly inflamed, bent on destruction, with the faceless irresponsibility of the mob.

With fear comes panic, with panic irresponsibility, and then he makes the mistake,-hews a pathway which the trained mind follows from motive to a prison cell.