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circumspection

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Noun — Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.

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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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