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Advertent vs Advertence - What's the difference?

advertent | advertence |

As an adjective advertent

is attentive.

As a noun advertence is

the quality of being advertent; heedfulness; regard; consideration.

advertent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attentive.
  • * 1828 , Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations , page 227
    • Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent , lest he should be deceived and transported
  • Not inadvertent; intentional.
  • * 1963 , Philippine Law Journal , page 442
    • There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
  • * 1998 , Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law , page 283
    • Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]

    Usage notes

    * This term is much rarer than its opposite inadvertent .

    Antonyms

    * (intentional) inadvertent ----

    advertence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality of being advertent; heedfulness; regard; consideration.

    • Synonyms

    * advertency