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14 letters · 24 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
noun the trait of being circumspect and prudent
originInherited 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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- circumspect 21
- copernicium 19
- circumcise 18
- concretism 16
- proscenium 16
- semitropic 16
- succincter 16
- copremic 16
- neuroticism 15
- computers 15
- conceptus 15
- conscript 15