neglectfulness
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But occasionally, the air is colored and salted by human complications, namely his neglectfulness as a husband and dad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Does her submissiveness, or non-assertiveness, or craving for paternal or male affection even at the cost of her own dreams and desires, arise from the distance or the neglectfulness of her father?
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2015
She seemed to be blaming herself for neglectfulness, and thus the enterprise of going out had the look of an act of duty.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Accidie: neglectfulness or indifference; from the Greek, akedeia.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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