indiscipline

From French indiscipline, from Middle French, from Late Latin indisciplina

indiscipline (usually uncountable, plural indisciplines)

1. Lack of discipline.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 17:

     [O]ur delay, and other things which happened, were proofs—and I was told not uncommon ones—of that carelessness, unreadiness, and general indiscipline of French arrangements, which has helped to bring about, since then, an utter ruin.

   • 2002 Feb. 7, Steven Erlanger, "German Unemployment Is Growing Problem for Schröder," New York Times (retrieved 15 June 2013):

     Germany feared that the fiscal indiscipline of countries like Italy and Greece could make the new euro currency unstable.

indiscipline f

1. plural of indisciplina