[syn: deliberation, deliberateness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Deliberateness \De*lib"er*ate*ness\, n.
The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration;
circumspection.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
deliberateness
n 1: a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn:
slowness, deliberation, deliberateness,
unhurriedness]
2: the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision; "he was a
man of judicial deliberation" [syn: deliberation,
deliberateness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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