carelessness vs neglect

carelessness

noun
  • Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless. 

neglect

noun
  • Habitual lack of care. 

  • The act of neglecting. 

  • The state of being neglected. 

verb
  • To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness. 

  • To fail to care for or attend to something. 

  • To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 

  • To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. 

How often have the words carelessness and neglect occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )