unintentional harm
Inadvertent injury caused
Unintentional harm is damage or injury caused without meaning to cause it.
The phrase appears often in legal, medical, and ethical contexts where intent matters: The medication caused unintentional harm to the patient's liver.
It distinguishes accidental consequences from deliberate wrongdoing, though the harm itself may be just as real.
- honest mistakeUnintended error without deception
- physical injuryBodily harm or damage
- workplace accidentHarm occurring during employment
- medical errorPreventable healthcare mistake
- accidentUnintended harmful event
good intentions · negligence · misjudgment · slip of the tongue · oversight · moral responsibility · ignorance · risk assessment · restorative justice · error · miscommunication · human error · emotional distress · duty of care · blind spot · traffic collision · accidental discharge · safety protocols
- Islamic jurisprudenceijma, Islamic law, Sharia, sharia court, fatwa
- legal capacitylegal capacity, mental capacity, capacity, incapacity, competence
unintentional harmintentional harm
Deliberately caused damage
malice · malicious intent · sadism · spite · vindictiveness
unintentional, intentional, intention, intent, intend, intending, intended, intends, intentionally