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carefulness

1 antonym for carefulness — opposites grouped by meaning.

Noun — The quality of taking care and paying close attention to avoid mistakes.

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From Middle English (exact form unrecorded), from Old English carfulnes ("care, anxiety, a charge, cure of souls, solicitude, carefulness, curiousness, curiosity"); equivalent to careful plus -ness.

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