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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state or quality of being circumspect. See Synonyms at prudence.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case, and to natural or probable consequences, with a view to ascertain the correct or safe course of conduct or to avoid undesirable results; watchfulness; wariness; caution: as, “sly circumspection,”
  2. n. Synonyms Vigilance, thoughtfulness, forecast, deliberation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness; vigilance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the trait of being circumspect and prudent
  2. n. knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress

Etymologies

  1. From Latin circumspectio (Wiktionary)

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