Wakefulness
['wekfəlnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world; 'consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar'.
(noun.) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep; 'accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come'.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sleeplessness, INSOMNIA, want of sleep, Indisposition to sleep.[2]. Watchfulness, vigilance, wariness.
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Examples
- Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an unusual degree of wakefulness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And she was so hard awake, it was almost frightening--a hard, metallic wakefulness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He drove on in a strange new wakefulness, the tension of his consciousness broken. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had been awake when he first entered her room, but had kept her eyes closed, so that even her wakefulness should not seem to reproach him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He would keep his councillors up to unearthly hours, and betray a simple pride in his superior wakefulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He tried to steal in, but was baffled by your wakefulness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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