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Definition of wariness : The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

Synonyms:

management, solicitude, attention, wakefulness, calculation, trouble, forethought, precaution, gingerliness, charge, oversight, watchfulness, fear, direction, worry, chariness, concern, anxiety, perplexity

attentiveness, mindfulness, caution, prudence, suspicion, alertness, awareness, guardedness, heedfulness, vigilance, discretion, circumspection, heed, care, carefulness, deliberation

doubt, cynicism, uncertainty, misgiving, unbelief, qualm, disbelief, skepticism, incertitude, agnosticism, unsureness

cleverness, ingeniousness, guile, mastery, finesse, sly, deviousness, quickness, ingenuity, skill, snakiness, deftness, wiliness, slipperiness, art, shrewdness, craftiness, wit, slickness, cunning, canniness, artfulness, smoothness, subtlety, sharpness, trickiness, facility, astuteness, foxiness

Usage examples:

• But the hunt demanded the utmost wariness. - "A Son of the Immortals", Louis Tracy.
• Feel they are not up to the people they are mixing with Feeling, nothing beyond a lively interest in her well- being Feigned utter condemnation to make partial comfort acceptable Fell to chatting upon the nothings agreeably and seriously Feminine pity, which is nearer to contempt than to tenderness Feminine; coming when she willed and flying when wanted Festive board provided for them by the valour of their fathers Few feelings are single on this globe Few men can forbear to tell a spicy story of their friends Fiddle harmonics on the sensual strings Fine eye for celestially directed consequences is ever haunted Fine Shades were still too dominant at Brookfield Finishing touches to the negligence Fire smoothes the creases Fires in the grates went through the ceremony of warming nobody Fit of Republicanism in the nursery Flashes bits of speech that catch men in their unguarded corner Flung him, pitied him, and passed on Foamy top is offered and gulped as equivalent to an idea Foe can spoil my face; he beats me if he spoils my temper Foist on you their idea of your idea at the moment Fond, as they say, of his glass and his girl Foolish trick of thinking for herself For 'tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too Forewarn readers of this history that there is no plot in it Forgetfulness is like a closing sea Fortitude leaned so much upon the irony Forty seconds too fast, as if it were a capital offence Found by the side of the bed, inanimate, and pale as a sister of death Found it difficult to forgive her his own folly Found that he 'cursed better upon water' Fourth of the Georges Frankness as an armour over wariness Fretted by his relatives he cannot be much of a giant Friend he would not shake off, but could not well link with Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two From head to foot nothing better than a moan made visible Frozen vanity called pride, which does not seek to be revenged Full- o'- Beer's a hasty chap Fun, at any cost, is the one object worth a shot Further she read, " Which is the coward among us?" - "Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith", George Meredith Edited and Arranged by David Widger.
• The clatter and noise of the omnibuses has been subdued in recent years by the introduction of electric trams which sweep round the corners with a terrifying speed, for after a long sojourn in the country and quiet little towns one loses the agility and wariness of the town- bred folk. - "Normandy, Complete The Scenery & Romance Of Its Ancient Towns", Gordon Home.