deliberative

About 0.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective That deliberates, considers carefully.
2. noun A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
3. noun A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

thoughtful considered consideration consider deliberate advisory decision-making discussion scrutiny participatory

Often followed by

democracy body assembly process and bodies assemblies processes or

Word family

deliberation deliberations deliberatively deliberativeness deliberativenesses