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/ɪrəspˌɑnsəbˈɪləti/ Listen

noun

Irresponsibility n.

Lack of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.

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

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Etymology of 'Irresponsibility'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Irresponsibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... cultivate those innate powers which are intended by God to be developed in the rounding out of good citizenship. In fact, the denial of freedom to any race, along any of the walks of life, has a tendency to teach that race irresponsibility; for responsibility must rest with the volition of ...

— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... anxious I should assent to his theory. And indeed on thinking it over it would have been plausible enough if there hadn't been always the essential falseness of irresponsibility in Schomberg's chatter. However, I was not disposed to investigate the psychology of Falk. I was engaged just then in eating despondently a piece of stale Dutch cheese, being too much crushed to care what I swallowed myself, let along ...

— Falk • Joseph Conrad

... awake until late the next morning and they found they had not suffered at all from sleeping between four walls and under a roof. Their lungs were full of fresh air, and youth with all its joyous irresponsibility had come back. Harry sprang out ...

— The Shades of the Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler

... often hinted by men that women are made good conversationalists by a sense of irresponsibility. But I am inclined to think that a little gossip now and then is relished by the best of men as well as women. The tendency to gossip with which men constantly credit women, and in which tendency the men themselves keep pace, helps both men and women very effectually ...

— Conversation - What to Say and How to Say it • Mary Greer Conklin

... less her aptitude, the more dogged her industry.) The seriousness of some women in Fleet Street and at the Slade School must be reckoned among the sights of London. It seems almost impossible that this priceless intensity of purpose should co-exist in the same individual with that annoying irresponsibility which I have endeavoured to account for. Yet such is the fact. Scores of instances of it might be furnished; let one, however, suffice. Once there was a woman-journalist in the North of England who wrote to a London paper for permission to act as its special correspondent during the ...

— Journalism for Women - A Practical Guide • E.A. Bennett

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