Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Careful reflection or consideration; circumspection; due attention to the arguments for and against; caution.
- n. Slowness in decision or action.
Wiktionary
- n. the state or property of being deliberate
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision
- n. a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
Etymologies
- deliberate + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A certain deliberateness characterized his attitude.”
“He claimed the Afikaans community had granted the new government sufficient time to prove its bona fides and felt there was an element of "deliberateness" which could no longer be suffered in silence.”
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“It was history's odd timing: A great historical rupture in the Arab world, bearing within it the promise of remaking a flawed political tradition that knew no middle ground between despotism and nihilistic violence, happened on the watch of an American president proud of his deliberateness and his detachment from history's passions.”
“At the tank, traffic splits into two lone channels through which thousands of humans will pass, their papers and cars reshuffled by guards who work with the deliberateness of furious watchmakers.”
“This started out an exercise designed to tame my mind, to approach my life in words with a deliberateness that can only come by stamping on the breaks.”
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“That being said, one was undeniably richer in its deliberateness.”
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“Watercolor is always a form of action painting: It represents a documentation of the equilibrium between freedom of stroke and deliberateness of intention.”
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“Its blood was cold as its deliberateness, and it did nothing save deliberately.”
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brtom In my acceptance of twentieth-century realities there has had to be a certain deliberateness, whereas most of my contemporaries had them simply by being born to them. Wendell Berry "A Native Hill" Jul 18, 2008