CONSIDERATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does considerateness mean? 

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

1. kind and considerate regard for others

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSIDERATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kind and considerate regard for others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

considerateness; consideration; thoughtfulness

Context example:

he showed no consideration for her feelings

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

kindness (the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "considerateness"):

attentiveness (the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others)

tact; tactfulness (consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense)

Derivation:

considerate (showing concern for the rights and feelings of others)

 Context examples 

I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and considerateness whenever the safety of others is committed to my care.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But the last singularity explains the first, as I intimated once before: you, with your gravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)