Carefulness
noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being careful. uncountable, usually
- 2 the quality of being careful and painstaking wordnet
- 3 the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English carfulnes (“care, anxiety, a charge, cure of souls, solicitude, carefulness, curiousness, curiosity”), equivalent to careful + -ness.