recklessness
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The mental state of consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a proscribed harm will occur.
The prosecution argued that his indifference to whether anyone was inside amounted to recklessness rather than mere carelessness.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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