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Inadvertence vs Remissness - What's the difference?

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Inadvertence is a related term of remissness.


As nouns the difference between inadvertence and remissness

is that inadvertence is the state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence while remissness is the characteristic of being remiss; carelessness; negligence; tardiness.

inadvertence

English

Noun

  • The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
    • Many mistakes proceed from inadvertence .
    Inadvertency , or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. — Jeremy Taylor.
  • An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.

    • remissness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The characteristic of being remiss; carelessness; negligence; tardiness.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:Impunity and remissenes , for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth, but here the great art lyes to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion only is to work.
  • *1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Myster of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:‘I have copied them chiefly to show you the extreme remissness of the police, who, as far as I can understand from the Prefect, have not troubled themselves, in any respect, with an examination of the naval officer alluded to.’