Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a lack of caution in practical affairs;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Imprudence \Im*pru"dence\, n. [L. imprudentia: cf. F.
imprudence. Cf. Improvidence.]
The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution,
circumspection, or a due regard to consequences;
indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; also, an imprudent
act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
[1913 Webster]
His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own
imprudence. --Mickle.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
imprudence
n 1: a lack of caution in practical affairs [ant: prudence]