noun
- failure to observe or comply with a rule, law, custom, or religious practice
Usage: formal
Examples
- The company was fined for inobservance of safety regulations.
- His inobservance of the dress code resulted in a warning.
- The treaty failed due to widespread inobservance by member nations.
- Religious leaders criticized the growing inobservance of traditional customs.
- The school’s inobservance of federal guidelines led to an investigation.
- Her inobservance of the curfew worried her parents.