Dictionary

circumspective en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin circumspicere.

Meanings

1. Looking around in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger.
   • circumspective eyes 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
2. Pertaining to situation or circumstances.
   • In the main, this circumspective aspect of morality is a relational affair, principally between the agent and at least two persons or parties other than the agent. 2014, John Laird, An Enquiry into Moral Notions, page 306:
   • circumspective concern
   • The existential meaning of circumspective deliberation, Heidegger argues in Being and Time is making-present (Gegenwärtigung). 1999, William McNeill, The Glance of the Eye, page 78:
   • Rather it is the unity of the three ecstasies of the temporality that constitutes the circumspective concern in its temporality. In other words, Dasein makes the equipmental system present in his circumspective concern with reference to his future ends, i.e., awaiting future ends, on the basis of the retention from the past. 2000, Vensus A. George, The Experience of Being as Goal of Human Existence, page 118:

Forms

Deriveds

circumspectively · circumspectivity

Relateds

circumspect