prudence (noun)
21discreetness — noun 1. knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress the servants showed great tact and discretion • Syn: ↑discretion, ↑circumspection, ↑prudence • Derivationally related forms: ↑prudent (for: ↑ …
22frugality — noun prudence in avoiding waste • Syn: ↑frugalness • Derivationally related forms: ↑frugal (for: ↑frugalness), ↑frugal • Hypernyms: ↑prudence …
23natural virtue — noun (scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature • Topics: ↑Scholasticism • Hypernyms: ↑ …
24sagaciousness — noun 1. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations • Syn: ↑sagacity, ↑judgment, ↑judgement, ↑discernment • Derivationally related forms: ↑sagacious, ↑sagacious (for: ↑ …
25foresight — noun Date: 14th century 1. an act or the power of foreseeing ; prescience 2. provident care ; prudence < had the foresight to invest his money wisely > 3. an act of looking forward; also a view forward • foresighted adjective …
26inevitable accident — noun a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God • Syn: ↑act of God, ↑force majeure, ↑vis major, ↑unavoidable casualty • Hypernyms: ↑calamity …
27ordinary care — noun the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty • Syn: ↑due care, ↑reasonable care • Hypernyms: ↑care, ↑charge, ↑tutelage, ↑guardianship * * * …
28cardinal virtue — noun Date: 14th century 1. one of the four classically defined natural virtues prudence, justice, temperance, or fortitude 2. a quality designated as a major virtue …
29folly — noun (plural follies) Etymology: Middle English folie, from Anglo French, from fol fool Date: 13th century 1. lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight 2. a. criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct b. obsolete evil,… …
30temerity — noun (plural ties) Etymology: Middle English temeryte, from Latin temeritas, from temere blindly, recklessly; akin to Old High German demar darkness, Latin tenebrae, Sanskrit tamas Date: 15th century 1. unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of… …
