Guardedness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being guarded; caution; circumspection.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or condition of being guarded.
  • Word Usage
    "Lawrence was smiling but there was a guardedness is his eyes, an opaqueness that made me wonder how funny he found his own joke."
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