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usually uncountable, plural recklessnesses
The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks. quotations examples
At such times, how we marvel at our usual recklessness, and pause, as it were, shrinking from the busy and inevitable current which is hurrying us on to eternity!
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 228