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irresolvableness |
irresolvedly |
irrespective |
irrespectively |
irrespirable |
irresponsibility
| irresponsible
| irresponsibleness
| irresponsibly
| irresponsive
| irresuscitable
irresponsibility
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun irresponsibility has 1 sense
- irresponsibility(n = noun.attribute) irresponsibleness - a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions; Array is a kind of untrustiness, untrustworthiness
has particulars: undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness, arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy, carefreeness
Derived form adjective irresponsible1
Antonym: responsibility
CIDE DICTIONARY
irresponsibility, n. [Cf. F. irresponsabilité.].
- Lack of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability. [1913 Webster]
- A trait causing one to act without a proper sense of responsibility; acting without giving proper weight to one's responsibilities. [PJC]
ROGET THESAURUS
irresponsibility
Exemption
N exemption, absence, exception, immunity, privilege, release, exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with, immune from, not having, unpossessed, untenanted, without an owner, unobtained, unacquired, exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge, exculpation, exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free, released, unbound, unencumbered, irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable, excusable, bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.
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