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Wakefulness

noun
1.
A periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world.
2.
A temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep.  Synonym: sleeplessness.  Antonym: sleepiness.
3.
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



... of increased suggestibility which we have characterized so far still remain within the limit of normal wakefulness. We may turn now to the methods of the psychotherapist which produce in the interest of the suggestions an artificial state. However we have no right superficially to claim that the effectiveness of the suggestions is always ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

... wander into the kitchen, without noticing any one, stand musing with his back to the fire, and then hurry off again to his room, no doubt to commit to paper some thought which had struck him. He was subject to fits of wakefulness, and read much in bed; if not disposed to read, he still kept the candle burning; if he wished to extinguish it, and it was out of his reach, he flung his slipper at it, which would be found in the morning ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various

... precautions, Geoffrey added his own wakefulness, although toward morning weariness triumphed over excitement and he ...
— The Burglar and the Blizzard • Alice Duer Miller

... he could assure himself that he was actually awake again. The twelve hours' sleep, during which apparently not one muscle had he stirred, had gone far to repair the ravages of thirty-six hours' steady wakefulness, and a cold bath did the rest. The two ladies were found to be in the dining room, still absorbed in the morning edition of a newspaper whose building had escaped the sweep of ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... intense feeling. We have fulness—fulness, it may be, produced by outward stimulus, or else by an inpouring of the Spirit. What we want is life, "more life, and fuller." To escape from monotony, to get away from the life of mere routine and habits, to feel that we are alive—with more of surprise and wakefulness in our existence. To have less of the gelid, torpid, tortoise-like existence. "To feel the years before us." ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson


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