(law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
(law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
“Luciano's death, at the end of the film, is shocking because it makes evident that the characters are at the mercy of their own neglectfulness.”
“She knew instinctively that goodwill grows in a spirit of thoughtfulness and is blighted by neglectfulness.”
“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?”