advertent

English

Etymology

Apparently back-formation from inadvertent.

Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere, from the verb adverto (“I give or draw attention to”)

Adjective

advertent (comparative more advertent, superlative most advertent)

1. Attentive.
   • 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227:

     Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent, lest he should be deceived and transported

2. Not inadvertent; intentional.
   • 1963, Philippine Law Journal, page 442:

     There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.

   • 1998, Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law, page 283:

     Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]

Usage notes

• This term is much rarer than its opposite inadvertent.

Synonyms

• (intentional): deliberate, purposeful, purposive, see Thesaurus:intentional

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “intentional”): inadvertent

Derived terms

• advertently

 

Latin

Verb

advertent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of advertō