CAUTIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cautiousness mean? 

• CAUTIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun CAUTIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger

  Familiarity information: CAUTIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUTIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

carefulness; caution; cautiousness

Context example:

a man of caution

Hypernyms ("cautiousness" is a kind of...):

attentiveness (the trait of being observant and paying attention)

Derivation:

cautious (showing careful forethought)

 Context examples 

I have no reason to think ill of her—not the least—except that such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Whatever Marianne was desirous of, her mother would be eager to promote—she could not expect to influence the latter to cautiousness of conduct in an affair respecting which she had never been able to inspire her with distrust; and she dared not explain the motive of her own disinclination for going to London.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I only fear that the sort of cautiousness to which you, I imagine, have been alluding, is merely adopted on his visits to his aunt, of whose good opinion and judgement he stands much in awe.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)