nonfeasance
Failure to act
Nonfeasance is the failure to perform a required duty or obligation, especially by someone in a position of responsibility.
It's a legal term distinguishing passive neglect from active wrongdoing.
A lifeguard who ignores a drowning swimmer commits nonfeasance; one who pushes someone underwater commits malfeasance.
The city was sued for nonfeasance after failing to repair the bridge.
Failure to exercise care
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- inattentionLack of focus
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
heedlessness · laxity · remissness · slackness · dereliction · irresponsibility · failure · default
Breaking of agreement
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- culpabilityDeserving blame for wrongdoing
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- dereliction of dutyWillful failure at responsibilities
failure to act · nonperformance · noncompliance · tort · fiduciary · misfeasance · duty · obligation
Lack of movement
- passivityState of non-resistance
- inertiaResistance to altered motion
- idlenessState of doing nothing
- stagnationAbsence of flow or progress
dormancy · quiescence · immobility · nonintervention · abstention · forbearance · withholding · refraining
negligence
Failure to exercise care
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- inattentionLack of focus
carelessness · heedlessness · laxity · remissness · slackness · dereliction · irresponsibility · failure · default · omission
breach
Breaking of agreement
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- culpabilityDeserving blame for wrongdoing
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
dereliction of duty · failure to act · nonperformance · noncompliance · tort · fiduciary · misfeasance · duty · obligation · damages
inactivity
Lack of movement
stagnation · dormancy · quiescence · immobility · nonintervention · abstention · forbearance · withholding · refraining · standstill
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- government ethicsethics board, ethics committee, ethics rules, ethics violation, ethics violations
- negligenceneglect, gross negligence, criminal negligence, medical negligence, negligence
- official misconductethics violation, misconduct, misfeasance, dereliction, abuse of power
- neglect crimeschild neglect, neglect, failure to act, dereliction of duty, elder neglect
nonfeasanceaction
Process of doing
performance · execution · doing · acting · intervention
nonfeasancecompliance
Adhering to requirements
fulfillment · fulfilment · performance · discharge · execution
fact, feat, manufacture, feasible, feasibility, malfeasance, infeasible, unfeasible, feasibly