Caution vs Fastidiousness - What's the difference?
caution | fastidiousness | Related terms |
Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
* Shakespeare
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Security; guaranty; bail.
* Clarendon
One who gives rise to attention or astonishment.
A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
The quality of being fastidious
*1974 , Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul , Pocket Books, New York, page 30
*:A sense of fastidiousness made the doctor choose the left side, near the door, when he slept in it himself with Clara.
Caution is a related term of fastidiousness.
As nouns the difference between caution and fastidiousness
is that caution is precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction while fastidiousness is the quality of being fastidious.As a verb caution
is to warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.caution
English
Noun
(en noun)- In way of caution I must tell you.
- The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
- Oh, that boy, he's a caution ! He does make me laugh.