wakefulness

Noun

Meaning

wakefulness (countable and uncountable, plural wakefulnesses)

The state of being wakeful.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

consciousness wake awakening insomnia arousal vigil alertness awareness restlessness vigilance sharp-sightedness sleeplessness insomnolence slumberless

Antonyms

sandman sleep coma drowsiness slumber anaesthesia
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Hypernyms

attention physical condition physiological condition physiological state

Hyponyms

jealousy arousal

Phrases with the word

insomnia or wakefulness

Examples

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. Frederick Douglass

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn't last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back. Haruki Murakami

We all have slumbering realms of sensibility which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books. Robertson Davies

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. Gustav Meyrink

Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,-there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. Thomas Babington Macaulay

A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between. Hubert Selby Jr.

Close letter words and terms

wakeful wakefullness wakefully Wakeland wakeless wakelessness