Definition for Remissness:

• Slackness; carelessness; negligence; want of punctuality.

Synonyms for Remissness:

• n.

  •
  • careful.
  •remissness (noun)
  • laxity.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • dilatoriness,
  • dreaminess,
  • drowsiness,
  • faineance,
  • heaviness,
  • inattention,
  • inattentiveness,
  • laxness,
  • laziness,
  • leisureliness,
  • neglectfulness,
  • passivity,
  • shiftlessness,
  • slackness,
  • slothfulness,
  • torpidness,
  • Do-nothingness,
  • Otiosity,
  • Torpescence,
  • Faineancy,
  • supineness,
  • unpreparedness,
  • sluggardness,
  • lackadaisicalness,
  • languorousness,
  • otioseness.

Antonyms for Remissness:

• n.

  • negligence
    care, attention, success, accomplishment, regard, achievement, respect.
  • Other antonyms:
    attentiveness, circumspection, watchfulness, carefulness, cautiousness, vigilance, responsibility, alertness, responsibleness, heedfulness, awareness, caution, observance.

Remissness Sentence Examples:

• In that brief and unfortunate experience of war which I had had in my early life, the universal cry of the army and well - affected persons was, that Mr. Braddock's expedition had failed, and defeat and disaster had fallen upon us in consequence of the remissness, the selfishness, and the rapacity of many of the very people for whose defence against the French arms had been taken up.

• Startled by the suddenness of the man's appearance, and at a loss to explain his remissness, Mozart could only promise to fulfil the commission on his return, and, hastily entering his carriage, he drove away.

Homophones for Remissness:

• ranking, rainmaking, rankness, rinsing, ring snake, ranching, ransacking, renascence, reminiscence, renaissance, running noose, ramsons, ringing, remaking.