recklessness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.

   “His recklessness repeatedly put him in danger.”

   “At such times, how we marvel at our usual recklessness, and pause, as it were, shrinking from the busy and inevitable current which is hurrying us on to eternity!”

   “Then, in a state of recklessness, engendered by such luxurious living, he bought another of stout and retired to William Street with it secreted under his coat.”

   “Partly because of the heavy burden of government debt built up during his stewardship, and the uncurbed recklessness of the country’s banks, Britain’s recession is already the harshest in Western Europe.”