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Caution vs Incaution - What's the difference?

caution | incaution |

As nouns the difference between caution and incaution

is that caution is precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction while incaution is a lack of caution.

As a verb caution

is to warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.

caution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In way of caution I must tell you.
  • 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
    • The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
  • One who gives rise to attention or astonishment.
    • Oh, that boy, he's a caution ! He does make me laugh.
  • A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * err on the side of caution * throw caution to the wind

    Related terms

    * cautionary * cautious * caveat * precaution

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    incaution

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A lack of caution.
  • *1720 , Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad , Book 23, Adamant 2000, p. 473:
  • *:Lest through incaution failing, thou mayst be / A joy to others, a reproach to me.
  • *2008 , "The Maverick Insider", The Guardian , 24 Jan 2008:
  • *:It always felt as though Hain's career, which began so powerfully with his youthful campaigning against apartheid, was going to come unstuck, but through political incaution , not financial incompetence.