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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Meaning of "irresponsibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRRESPONSIBILITY

irresponsibility  [ˌɪrɪspɒnsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRRESPONSIBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irresponsibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IRRESPONSIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Responsibility

Responsibility may refer to: ▪ Collective responsibility ▪ Corporate social responsibility ▪ Diffusion of responsibility ▪ Diminished responsibility ▪ Duty ▪ Human responsibilities ▪ Legal liability ▪ Legal responsibility, various meanings ▪ Media responsibility ▪ Moral responsibility ▪ Obligation ▪ Professional responsibility ▪ Responsibility assumption in spirituality and personal-growth contexts ▪ Responsibility, a song by the Christian punk band MxPx ▪ Single responsibility principle ▪ Social responsibility ▪ The Westminster system constitutional conventions of: ▪ Cabinet collective responsibility ▪ Individual ministerial responsibility...

Definition of irresponsibility in the English dictionary

The first definition of irresponsibility in the dictionary is the quality o state of not showing due care for the consequences of one's actions or attitudes; recklessness. Other definition of irresponsibility is incapability of bearing responsibility. Irresponsibility is also the quality or state of not being answerable to a higher authority for one's actions.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRRESPONSIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRRESPONSIBILITY

irresolutely
irresoluteness
irresolution
irresolvability
irresolvable
irresolvableness
irresolvably
irrespective
irrespective of
irrespectively
irrespirable
irresponsible
irresponsibleness
irresponsibly
irresponsive
irresponsively
irresponsiveness
irrestrainable
irresuscitable
irresuscitably

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRRESPONSIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of irresponsibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «irresponsibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRRESPONSIBILITY

Find out the translation of irresponsibility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of irresponsibility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «irresponsibility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不负责任
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irresponsabilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

irresponsibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लापरवाही
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللامسؤولية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безответственность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irresponsabilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দায়িত্বজ্ঞানহীনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irresponsabilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bertanggungjawab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verantwortungslosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無責任
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무책임
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora tanggung jawab
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiếu trách nhiệm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொறுப்பற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेजबाबदारपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sorumsuzluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irresponsabilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieodpowiedzialność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безвідповідальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iresponsabilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανευθυνότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onverantwoordelikheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oansvarighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uansvarlighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of irresponsibility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRESPONSIBILITY»

The term «irresponsibility» is regularly used and occupies the 88.637 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRRESPONSIBILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «irresponsibility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «irresponsibility» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about irresponsibility

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10 QUOTES WITH «IRRESPONSIBILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word irresponsibility.
1
Terri Apter
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
2
Ehud Barak
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
3
Robert Casey
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
4
James S. Coleman
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
5
Jacques Delors
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
6
Pete Hegseth
Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.
7
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
8
Henry A. Kissinger
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
9
Tony Kushner
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
10
Erwin Rommel
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRRESPONSIBILITY»

Discover the use of irresponsibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irresponsibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Corporate Irresponsibility: America's Newest Export
Mitchell declares that managers should be freed from the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for them to exercise ordinary moral judgment and be held accountable for their actions.
Lawrence E. Mitchell, 2001
2
Irresponsibility
Poetry. "Put this book down and go be with other people," urges Chris Vitiello in his playful and grave second book.
Chris Vitiello, 2008
3
Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
This book offers a contrasting view - namely that legal institutions, through their practices, concepts and categories, in fact deflect responsibility, instead promoting an irresponsibility of sorts.
Scott Veitch, 2007
4
Alcoholism: Genetic Culpability Or Social Irresponsibility? ...
Representing the social responsibility side of the debate, Marshall (U. of the West Indies, Trinidad) presents his sociological and methodological arguments against the genetic causality hypothesis of the disease model of alcohol abuse and ...
Ronald Marshall, 2001
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Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A Challenging Concept
Addressing such limitations, this volume proposes that the concept of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) offers a better theoretical platform to avoid the vagueness, ambiguity, arbitrariness and mysticism of CSR.
Ralph Tench, William Sun, Brian Jones, 2012
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Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of ...
In this immensely timely book, Andrew Yarrow brings the sometimes eye-glazing discussion of national debt down to earth, explaining in accessible terms why federal debt is rising (and will soon rise much faster), what effects it may have on ...
Andrew L. Yarrow, 2008
7
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American ...
104 Richard Washburn Child saw the terrible consequences of "a new sense of irresponsibility" in the apparent disorder everywhere around him. "We are living in an age of irresponsibility," he thundered; "the whole philosophy of freedom at ...
David E. Ruth, 1996
8
The Inhuman Condition: Looking for Difference after Levinas ...
positive term for which irresponsibility was not only the negation but the privation. That is, one would have to show that responsibility is the 'normal' state for humans and that, consequently, irresponsibility, like moral evil, which could function ...
Rudi Visker, 2006
9
The Origins of Responsibility
irresponsibility, with responsibility arising out of it. Nietzsche speaks of the radical unaccountability of all things, negating responsibility and proclaiming the radical innocence of life and becoming. There is no intention, no design, no author, ...
François Raffoul, 2010
10
Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in ...
To be tempted by ethics is to be tempted in a peculiar way—a peculiarly harrowing way for Abraham—by irresponsibility. Being responsible to the highest authority here means, not only sacrificing the irreplaceable son Isaac, but also ethical ...
Daniel K. Jernigan, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRRESPONSIBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irresponsibility is used in the context of the following news items.
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Katie Hopkins: 'I definitely identify with that murderer thing, where …
There was the apparent lack of empathy and remorse, the irresponsibility, the grandiose self-worth. While it's irresponsible to diagnose ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Germany Votes in Favor of Greek Bailout Negotiations- Capital.gr
"We would be acting with crude negligence and irresponsibility if we didn't at least try this path," Ms. Merkel said of the negotiations. Friday's ... «Capital.gr, Jul 15»
3
Please Don't Judge Me for How I Breastfeed | Preen
Unless the child is in harm's way by some parenting irresponsibility, and I mean literal harm and not some speculative outcome yet to be proven ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
4
'You'll go home in an ambulance': Transgender journalist threatens …
Later during the in-flight interview, Francis returned to speaking of the woman, adding, “That is an irresponsibility. [That woman might say] 'no ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
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Obergefell and the New Homophiles | Opinion | LifeSite
Later during the in-flight interview, Francis returned to speaking of the woman, adding, “That is an irresponsibility. [That woman might say] 'no ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
6
The hyperbolic and exhausting papacy of Francis | Catholic World …
... remarks reported on numerous websites and newspapers—about a mother of seven whose pregnancy, said Francis, "is an irresponsibility". «Catholic World Report, Jul 15»
7
Labour's record in Government - The Irish Times
The real cause for disillusionment is the fact that so much of media and academia support Greek irresponsibility in bankrupting their own ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
8
Yobs caught on CCTV vandalising fire hydrant on quiet street …
“It's frustrating because of the sheer irresponsibility of their actions.” Scott Wilson, United Utilities water network manager, said the hydrant ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Never mind the national interest, this is a no-win game | The Australian
The sheer irresponsibility of much of the political class is astonishing yet we treat it with mundane acceptance. There is a litany of ideas — not ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
10
New York Chicago - Chicago Tribune
Despite all its gun violence, cronyism and fiscal irresponsibility, Chicagoans tend to think that, at its core, the city is "Midwestern nice. «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»

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