irresponsibility
nounEtymology From ir- + responsibility or irresponsible + -ity.
1
The character or state of being irresponsible; lack of or freedom from responsibility; want of accountability.
- How important can the greenhouse effect, biodiversity or future worldwide timber shortages seem to a third-worlder, for example? It would be wrong to think of this third-worlder as irresponsible or as a squanderer of resources before serious steps are taken towards solving the well-known and much worse problem of resource squandering and environmental irresponsibility in the developed nations.1990 July 19, Ricardo Radulovich, “A view on tropical deforestation”, in Nature, volume 346, page 214: