Advertent

Origin

Apparently Back-formation from {{3}}

Latin advertent-, advertens, present participle of advertere ("to advertise")

Full definition of advertent

Adjective

1. Attentive.
• 1828, Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations, page 227Is 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 442There 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 283Until 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.

Antonyms

• (intentional) inadvertent