Incaution vs Recklessness - What's the difference?

incaution | recklessness |


As nouns the difference between incaution and recklessness

is that incaution is a lack of caution while recklessness is the state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.

incaution

English

Noun

(-)
  • A lack of caution.
  • *1720 , Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad , Book 23, Adamant 2000, p. 473:
  • *:Lest through incaution failing, thou mayst be / A joy to others, a reproach to me.
  • *2008 , "The Maverick Insider", The Guardian , 24 Jan 2008:
  • *:It always felt as though Hain's career, which began so powerfully with his youthful campaigning against apartheid, was going to come unstuck, but through political incaution , not financial incompetence.

    • recklessness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.
    • His recklessness repeatedly put him in danger.