Negligence vs Negligibly - What's the difference?
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The state of being negligent.
(legal, singulare tantum) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
(legal, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
To a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored.
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Negligence is a related term of negligibly.
As a noun negligence
is the state of being negligent.As an adverb negligibly is
to a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored.negligence
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(en-noun)Usage notes
* The breach of a duty of care is one element of the tort of negligence, but is also called (term); one must therefore take care to clarify what is meant.External links
* (wikipedia) ----negligibly
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Adverb
(-)- Thus if the spherical surface beings are living on a planet of which the solar system occupies only a negligibly small part of the spherical universe, they have no means of determining whether they are living in a finite or in an infinite universe.