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Negligence vs Negligibly - What's the difference?

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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

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.

    negligibly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored.
  • * 1920
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * insignificantly