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Wakefulness

noun

A periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world.

A temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep. Synonym: sleeplessness.

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

... and attempts to recite the catechism or the multiplication table. He seizes a languid fan, which treacherously leaves him in a calm. He tries to reason, to notice the phenomena. Oh, that one could carry his pew to bed with him! What tossing wakefulness there! what fiery chase after somnolency! In his lawful bed a man cannot sleep, and in his pew he cannot keep awake! Happy man who does not sleep in church! Deacon Trowbridge was not ...

— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor - Volume I • Various

... of the fifth in dreamy wakefulness; Lionel's looks, caresses, and loving words seeming hers still; and to-morrow eve; the glad joy of his presence would be again felt; and her sympathy and love for him were so tender and heartfelt, that she lost herself in an intoxicating ...

— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny

... back-room of a Chinese inn is nearly always a pigsty, and a noisome place on general principles. Later in the evening a few privileged characters are permitted to come up, and the room quickly changes into a regular opium-den. A tough day's journey and two previous nights of wakefulness, enable me to fall asleep, notwithstanding the evil smells, the presence of the opium-smoking visitors, and the grunting pigs and talkative humans ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

... best of his plaid, and picked a softish place, and went off into a sort of dog-sleep, which lasted at intervals through the short summer night. A poor thin sort of sleep it was, in which he never altogether lost his consciousness, and broken by short intervals of actual wakefulness, but a blessed release from the self-questionings and panics of ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... near a gendarme's lantern in the middle of the street. A block away another sounded, then another, and another, and others yet, each thinly shrill and distant. It was the challenge to slumber and the answer of wakefulness from the watches of the ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

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