Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.

(countable) An imprudent act.

* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences , he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Francois Coppee, title=Ten Tales, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=S.C. Hill, title=Three Frenchmen in Bengal, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences . }}

* {{quote-book

, year=1906 – 1921 , author= , title= , volume=1 , chapter=Encounter , passage=He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.}}

Noun

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.

Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.

* {{quote-book

, year= 1895 , year_published= , author= , by= (Max Simon Nordau) , title= Degeneration , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LOWr5TsEaPUC&pg=PA270 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= D. Appleton and Company , location= New York , editor= , volume= , page= 270 , passage= The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility . }}