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UK
/wˈeɪkfəlnəs/
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NOUN
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the process of paying close and continuous attention
vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue
wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter -
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 -
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
How To Use wakefulness In A Sentence
- Tired after two performances that day, she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
- They can treat their time away as a temporary break from reality, like a dreamworld where whatever happened stayed in the dream, not following them into the realities of wakefulness.
- You might call it a dreamscape, but they say no, it's "crepuscular" - it's the slippery moment just after you wake up, between sleep and wakefulness. NPR Topics: News
- All of which makes, of course, for a heady mix: the world groaning into wakefulness, the ice splitting, the tubers stirring, and the whole cosmic rhythm incorporated into a scene of priests solemnifying the return of the light of the world. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
- Infant colic is characterized by excessive and inconsolable crying, hypertonicity, and wakefulness, mainly in the evening.
- Men said he kept one beneath his pillow for use in moments of wakefulness.
- I slept badly that night: long, indeterminable periods of uneasy wakefulness interspaced with dreams.
- I do this in the night sometimes, in moments of partial wakefulness.
- Consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar.
- The Turkish basketball federation said Friday that Taurasi had tested positive for a stimulant that was identified as modafinil, a drug that enhances wakefulness and vigilance and is designed to treat narcolepsy, sleep apnea and sleep disorders related to shift work. NYT > Home Page
