Inadvertence
Inadvertence , noun
[Compare French inadvertance.]
1.
The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence.
Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers.
2.
An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact.
Also: Inadvertency