INADVERTENCE meaning: Lack of attention; unintentional oversight

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inadvertence: Merriam-Webster
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inadvertence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
inadvertence: Collins English Dictionary
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inadvertence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
inadvertence: Wiktionary
inadvertence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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inadvertence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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inadvertence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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inadvertence: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inadvertence)

▸ noun: The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
▸ noun: An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.

Opposite:

intention, design, purpose, aim

Types:

oversight, lapse, slip, blunder, error, more...

Adjectives:

mere, such, sheer, least, own, pure, strange, simple, slight, unlawful, singular

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