incuriousness
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Wells in The Outline of History, "the incuriousness of the Roman rich and their Roman rulers was more massive and monumental even than their architecture."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Whether this was a masterpiece of policy calculated to discourage lawsuits, or whether it was merely due to Spanish incuriousness and maladministration, is a moot point.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Incuriosity -- N. incuriosity, incuriousness &c. adj.; insouciance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
This incuriousness is not a peculiarity of Londoners only.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
The virtue he loved was simple, sociable, gay, sprightly, and playful; to use one of his own expressions, ‘Ignorance and incuriousness are two charming pillows for a sound head.’
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman