JUDICIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does judiciousness mean? 

• JUDICIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun JUDICIOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. good judgment

2. the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

  Familiarity information: JUDICIOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDICIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Good judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

discernment; judgement; judgment; sagaciousness; sagacity (the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations)

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

care; caution; forethought; precaution (judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger)

Antonym:

injudiciousness (lacking good judgment)

Derivation:

judicious (marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

judiciousness; sagaciousness; sagacity

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

wisdom; wiseness (the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight)

Derivation:

judicious (marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters)