Noun
The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. Erving Goffman
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness. Mark Helprin
I was always raised to think that Republicans were about limited government, about individual liberty, about fiscal responsibility, about balanced budgets, about a wariness of military adventures abroad, about responsible encouragement to business. John Perry Barlow
There was a looseness to this, beyond her experience of chatbots, but a wariness as well. William Gibson
Alone with them, she breaks through their wariness and teaches them the basics of music (" Do-Re-Mi "). Source: Internet
Barnouw, Golden, p. 17 There had been a longstanding wariness between radio and the newspapers as well; the papers had rightly concluded that the upstart radio business would compete with them on two counts – advertising dollars and news coverage. Source: Internet