Other forms: indiscretions
An indiscretion is an unwise act or a secret carelessly let out. A youthful indiscretion, a moment of indiscretion, past indiscretions.
It is a softening word: youthful indiscretion is how people describe something they would call worse in somebody else. It also means letting slip what should have been kept quiet, which is the older and more literal sense.
1nounindiscretionAn unwise act or a secret carelessly let out.
“The minister lost his job after an indiscretion at dinner, when he told a journalist about the secret plan.”
indiscretion is a mistake.
INdiscretion → the opposite of DISCRETION
Discretion is keeping the secret. This is the evening you did not keep it, and everybody at the table heard you say it.
hooks ontodiscretion
Latin indiscretio, in- plus discretio, from discernere, to distinguish or judge. Discretion is the positive.
Latin
indiscrētiō
English, today
indiscretion
From Old French -, from Latin indiscrētiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA