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View definitions for wakefulness

wakefulness

noun as in watchfulness

noun as in sleeplessness

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Sara Lee roused her to half wakefulness, no interest and extremely poor English.

Then she heard a little restless bird chirp out its wakefulness from a nest in the ivy round the walls of the house.

It was long before he fell asleep; but when he did, the sleep was more terrible than the haunted wakefulness.

He picked her up and fanned and patted her into wakefulness again and then turned desperately to the window and looked down.

Vienna is a place for enjoyment rather than for work, for pensive dreaming rather than for sober wakefulness of mind.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wakefulness, such as: alertness, attention, and vigilance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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