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Wakefulness

noun

A periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world.

A temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep. Synonym: sleeplessness. Antonym: sleepiness.

The process of paying close and continuous attention. Synonyms: alertness, vigilance, watchfulness. "Vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue"

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"Wakefulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... I wellnigh dropped it. "All ri'!" said I, and he grinned at me through the cab window as the cabman flicked his horse into wakefulness. It was a white packet he had given me, with red seals at either end and along its edge. "If this isn't money," said I, ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... attack and escape brought the other sleepers to heavy-eyed wakefulness. They saw Dopey Charlie advancing upon the Kid, a knife in his hand. Behind him slunk The General, urging the other on. The youth was backing toward the doorway. The tableau persisted but for an instant. ...

— The Oakdale Affair • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... illegitimate daughter Juliana, left to the ferocious revenge of Raoul de Harenc, by whom their eyes were put out and their noses cut off. With such recollections as these to haunt his later years, no wonder Henry's nights were times of agony and wakefulness. ...

— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... he did not know; some noise, no doubt, either inside the bunk-house or without. Nerves attuned to battle-front conditions are likely to become sharp as razor-edges, and Buck, starting from deep slumber to complete wakefulness, was almost instantly aware of a sense of ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... dwelling, with something of its stridulous reiteration. The young man listened, and replied with softly assenting eyes, but without pausing in the material aid that he was quietly giving her. He had removed the cradle of the sleeping child to the bedroom, quieted the sudden wakefulness of "Pinkey," rearranged the straggling furniture of the sitting-room with much order and tidiness, repaired the hinges of a rebellious shutter and the lock of an unyielding door, and yet had apparently retained an unabated interest in her spoken woes. Surprised ...

— By Shore and Sedge • Bret Harte

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