thoughtfulness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From thoughtful + -ness.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɔːt.f(ə)l.nəs/, /-fʊl-/
- (General American) enPR: thôt’fl-nəs, IPA(key): /ˈθɔt.f(ə)l.nəs/, [ˈθɔt.fl̩.nəs]
- (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈθɑt.f(ə)l.nəs/, [ˈθɑt.fl̩.nəs]
Audio (General American, cot–caught merger): (file)
- Hyphenation: thought‧ful‧ness
Noun
[edit]thoughtfulness (uncountable)
- Thoughtful and considerate attention.
- Antonym: thoughtlessness
- 1905, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Sara”, in A Little Princess: […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 3:
- She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
- Careful deliberation before action.
- Antonym: unthoughtfulness
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]thoughtful and considerate attention
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careful deliberation before action
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References
[edit]- ^ “thoughtfulness, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2009; “thoughtfulness, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.