circumspection

Meaning

Noun

• Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
• Caution, watchfulness, or vigilance fueled by such awareness.

Origin

• From Old French circumspection, from Latin circumspectio; surface analysis circum- + -specto#Latin, "looking [all] around" (as compared with the opposite concept, embodied as tunnel vision or blinders)