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