circumspection

Значение (Английский)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness.

Этимология (Английский)

Inherited from Middle English circumspeccioun, from Middle French circonspection or its etymon Latin circumspectio. By surface analysis, circum- + Latin spect + -ion, "looking [all] around" (as compared with the opposite concept, embodied as tunnel vision or blinders).

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