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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carefulness

Carefulness \Care"ful*ness\, n. Quality or state of being careful.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carefulness

Old English carfulnys; see careful + -ness.

Wiktionary
carefulness

n. The state of being careful.

WordNet
carefulness
  1. n. the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger; "a man of caution" [syn: caution, cautiousness] [ant: incaution]

  2. the quality of being careful and painstaking; "I admired the carefulness of his work" [ant: carelessness]

Usage examples of "carefulness".

Health became restored, a moderate and augmenting fortune, laid in the foundations of carefulness, came to us.

He, too, soonlearned Peter's excellent traits of character, and gave himemployment whenever he had pianos to move, or any work to bedone which required carefulness and promptitude.

A contemporary account of the week's festivities says: "Although the play was thought most amusing, yet the king, realising what a resemblance there is between those who in true devoutness seek the way to Heaven, and those who with a vain show of good works none the less do evil, could not in his delicate carefulness for the things that concern religion suffer vice to be made so like virtue, that one might be taken for the other.

Often also too much carefulness or some anxiety or other touching confession hindereth from obtaining devotion.

For, behold, this selfsame thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you!