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carefulness

n.
US //ˈkɛɹfəɫˌnɛs// UK //kˈeəfəlnəs// care·ful·ness
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From Middle English [Term?], from Old English carfulnes (“care, anxiety, a charge, cure of souls, solicitude, carefulness, curiousness, curiosity”), equivalent to careful + -ness.

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