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 . }}

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, 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

(en-noun)

The state of being senseless; unsense.

* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

They had contributed heavily to their own downfall, most glaringly with the senselessness of Chris Smalling’s red card, and they should know by now that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are not the kind of opponents to pass up these kind of handouts.