THESAURUS
hedging
allowance, bickering, boggling, calculation, canniness, captious, captiousness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, caviling, cession, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, circumscription, circumspection, concession, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, discretion, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, fencing, gingerliness, grain of salt, grant, guardedness, hairsplitting, hedge, heed, heedfulness, hesitation, judiciousness, limitation, logic-chopping, mental reservation, mindfulness, modification, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pawkiness, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, prevarication, prior consultation, prudence, prudentialness, pussyfooting, qualification, quibbling, regardfulness, reservation, restriction, safeness, safety first, salvo, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, slowness to act, solicitude, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, subterfuge, tentativeness, tergiversation, thoroughness, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial, uncommunicativeness, unprecipitateness, waiver
