Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being reckful or careful; heedfulness; caution.
When you reply that your reckfulness can be taken as read, he'll confide: 'I know, I know. I'm talking to myself.'
2009, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season1 more example
Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: […]
1843, The metropolitan
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From reckful + -ness. Compare recklessness.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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