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

And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de

Affectionate loyalty to his father had ever been a guiding principle in Piers Otway's life; he was uneasy under the sense that he had begun to slip towards neglectfulness, towards careless independence.

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George

Accidie: neglectfulness or indifference; from the Greek, akedeia.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing