English Explanatory Dictionary

carefulness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being careful.

Word forms

carefulness carefulnesses

Etymology

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

Synonyms

caution
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