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noun, feminine

circonspection

/siʁ.kɔ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃/

noun, feminine/siʁ.kɔ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃/plural: circonspections

circumspection (attention to all the facts and circumstances)

Borrowed from Latin circumspectiōnem (“looking around, circumspection”), from circumspiciō (“to look around”). By surface analysis, circonspect + -tion.