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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
- During the period of transition from wakefulness to sleep, which Kellaway has termed the oscitant state, there is a gradual increase in the amplitude of slow components of the EEG.
- Buddhism is less tongue-tied than this: reality has all the qualities of a Buddha, wakefulness, intelligence, compassion — attributes which are often called "luminosity" to distinguish it from sheer lack of existence. Hegel on Buddhism
- Researchers have theorized that sleep may restore some chemical that is drained during periods of wakefulness.
- He flung an arm across his face to shield off wakefulness, hoping to sink back into sweet oblivion.
- And onceWinston could not remember whether it was in drugged sleep, or in normal sleep, or even in a moment of wakefulnessa voice murmured in his ear: Dont worry, Winston; you are in my keeping. Nineteen Eighty-Four
- And he turns his back to the stable door, whence a faint breeze tugs at his shirt: the breath of a storm brewing, that means to keep him in cold, unmothered wakefulness.
- Consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar.
- Socrates' preferred analogy for his own role in the city was that of a gadfly, who lit upon his fellow citizens and sought to sting them into a healthy state of intellectual wakefulness.
- Old Cheng fell asleep, but Xiangzi tossed and turned in wakefulness.
- Although hypnopompic imagery was originally defined as a persistence of dream imagery into wakefulness, it seems that the images are not always continuations of dreams because they can begin after the sleeper has awoken.