Carefulness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being careful. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the quality of being careful and painstaking wordnet
  3. 3
    the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger wordnet

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cautionanticipationattentionausterityausterity programcalculation

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English carfulnes (“care, anxiety, a charge, cure of souls, solicitude, carefulness, curiousness, curiosity”), equivalent to careful + -ness.

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