advisednessn.
/ədˈvʌɪzᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /ədˈvaɪzᵻdnəs/ 1. The quality or fact of having given careful thought to something, or of being disposed or inclined to do this; prudent consideration; prudence, judiciousness; deliberation. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun]
i-mindOE
studyinglOE
mindc1300
bethinking1340
poring1340
regard1348
weighingc1380
contemplationc1390
advisementa1393
deliberationa1393
advicec1405
reckoninga1413
visement?1414
considerancec1420
advisenessc1425
revolutionc1425
rewardc1432
mind-takingc1449
umbethinkingc1450
advisednessc1475
considering1483
beholding1530
meditationa1535
pondering1535
cogitation?1542
expending1545
ponderation1556
perpending1558
well weighing1566
surview1576
reflex1593
revolve1595
lucubration1596
agitation1600
perpension1612
vizamenta1616
pensitation1623
perpensation1623
perpendment1667
ruminating1668
commentationa1670
revolving1670
reflectiona1674
introspectiona1676
propendencya1676
ponderment1728
chawing1845
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 98 (MED) Þat we..be euer in sadnes and sobirnes and avisidnes, and we be sett aside from liȝtnes and gladnes of þe worlde and of þe fleische.
1555 Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans iv. xxix. sig. S.vi/1 As I beste coulde by aduysednesse [c1425 Augustus avisenesse; 1513 Pynson aduysenesse], Aye dylygent that none felle in distresse.
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia vi. f. 169 Cicero..with great aduisednesse kept hys souldyers wythin his camp.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 56 Such a kind of cunctation, advisednesse, and procrastination is allowable also in all Councells of State.
1679 J. Corbet Kingdom God among Men i. 6 It [sc. the spirit of Christianity] may gain upon others and win them to its own advisedness, steddiness, purity and soberness.
1755 S. Walker Christian ix. 236 His Recreations also, are with much Consultation and Advisedness.
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) ix. §10 Advisedness with respect to the circumstances..extends the intentionality from the act to the consequences.
1828 Q. Rev. 38 568 Declarations..made..sometimes in the warmth of exultation, sometimes with the advisedness of a settled judgment.
1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 87 She continued to dispense her charities with the same liberality, but with more advisedness than in her early acquisition of fortune.
1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country i. vi. 77 Ralph..had..reached it not suddenly or dramatically, but with such sober advisedness as [etc.].
2. The quality or fact of being advisable; advisability.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > [noun] > advisability
advisableness1685
advisability1778
advisedness1849
1849 Standard 13 Oct. That the Liverpool Dock Committee be communicated with as to the advisedness of benefiting their estate..by appropriating the Victoria or Trafalgar dock exclusively as a coal dock.
1898 Jrnl. Manch. Geogr. Soc. 14 28 Sir John wrote the foregoing in respect to the advisedness of retaining the usage of recording astronomical occurrences in a day commencing at noon in place of at midnight.
1902 L. E. Turner How Women earn Competence 244 The advisedness of young ladies undertaking the study and practice of law as a means of self-support.
1974 University (Missouri, Kansas) News 14 Nov. 14/3 I'm still struggling with the advisedness of the whole idea of this footnoted, bibliographied opus.
2010 Observer (Nexis) 11 Apr. 12 My jury's still out on the advisedness of doubling up two—or more—leather pieces in just the one look.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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