lack of proper or due attention.

wilful disregard; lack of respect; indifference.

a conclusion or opinion arrived at by inferring; inference; conjecture.

(rhet.) a fig. of speech; a poetical fancy that consists in supposing two objects as similar to each other in some respects and in including expressly or by implication, a probability of their identity based on such similarity, that is the imagining of one object under the character of another); the act of thinking, speaking or writing of a thing as greater than it really is; an overstating; exaggeration.