judiciousness
- n good judgment
- n the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating
- Judge Julius Hoffman, who presided more in anger than in cool judiciousness, is in semiretirement.
- When he rose for sentencing, the judge admonished Wilcox to "display more judiciousness in your relations with other people," ordered him to pay the victim's $1,500 hospital bill .
- He offers little in the way of red-meat rhetoric to his audiences, some of whom are surprised, and disappointed, by his persistent judiciousness.