Need a word for "situation where something was ignored"
I need a word for "situations where something was ignored"
Examples:
This was one of the worst ____ of democracy in history
His many ____ of basic hygiene led to his sickness
I was thinking "negligences" but that's not a real word. Something like that.
You could use lapse, or lapses. A lapse of judgement for example.
Merrian-Webster defines lapse as (intransitive verb):
: to fall from an attained and usually high level (as of morals or manners) to one much lower
: to depart from an accepted pattern or standard