Deliberateness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deliberateness \De*lib"er*ate*ness\, n.
     The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration;
     circumspection.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  deliberateness
       n 1: a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: {slowness},
             {deliberation}, {unhurriedness}]
       2: the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision; "he was a
          man of judicial deliberation" [syn: {deliberation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "deliberateness":
     aforethought, calculatedness, calculation, canniness, care,
     careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness,
     circumspection, creeping, deliberate stages, deliberation,
     discretion, dolce far niente, drawl, express intention,
     expressness, foot-dragging, forethought, gingerliness, guardedness,
     hastelessness, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, hesitation,
     idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness,
     intentionality, judiciousness, languor, laziness, leisureliness,
     lentitude, lentor, mindfulness, pawkiness, pokiness,
     preconsideration, predeliberation, predetermination, premeditation,
     preresolution, prior consultation, prudence, prudentialness,
     regardfulness, relaxedness, reluctance, safeness, safety first,
     slackness, sloth, slowness, slowness to act, sluggardy,
     sluggishness, solicitude, tentativeness, thoroughness,
     uncommunicativeness, unhastiness, unhurriedness,
     unprecipitateness