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Regardless vs Hence - What's the difference?

regardless | hence |

As adverbs the difference between regardless and hence

is that regardless is without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences while hence is (archaic) from here, from this place, away.

As an adjective regardless

is having no regard; heedless; careless.

As a preposition regardless

is paying no attention to; regardless of.

As a verb hence is

(obsolete) to send away.

regardless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no regard; heedless; careless.
  • * 1843 , :
    • I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.

    Derived terms

    * regardless of

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences.
    • Tatiana knew the cauliflower was purple, but she ate it regardless .

    Synonyms

    * anyhow * anyway * at any rate * come what may * in any case

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Paying no attention to; regardless of.
    • Tatiana ate the cauliflower regardless of its colour.

    Usage notes

    * Phrases such as 'regardless if' and 'regardless to' are technically incorrect. English words affected by confusion

    hence

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic) from here, from this place, away
    • I'm going hence , because you have insulted me.
    Get thee hence , Satan!
  • * c.1599-1601 , , Act 4, Scene 1,
    • O Gertrude, come away! / The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, / But we will ship him hence :
  • * 1849 , ,
    • Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence , nor returning hither again?
  • (archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world
    • ''After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence .
  • (archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now
    • ''A year hence it will be forgotten.
  • (conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason
    • ''I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
    ''The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
  • * 1910 , , Section VI: Weak Points and Strong, 8,
    • Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
  • * 1910 , [1513], , Chapter VI,
    • Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
  • * 1731 May 27, ,
    • That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;
  • (temporal location) from this time, from now
    • ''The plane will leave two months hence .

    Synonyms

    * consequently

    Derived terms

    * henceforth * henceforward

    Related terms

    * whence * thence

    Verb

    (henc)
  • (obsolete) To send away.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
    English conjunctive adverbs English location adverbs English temporal location adverbs