reckfulness

English

Etymology

From reckful +‎ -ness. Compare recklessness.

Noun

reckfulness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being reckful or careful; heedfulness; caution.
   • 1843, The metropolitan:

     Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: […]

   • 2009, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season:

     When you reply that your reckfulness can be taken as read, he'll confide: 'I know, I know. I'm talking to myself.'