Wakefulness

Definitions: Wakefulness

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.

Date "wakefulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	A state in which there is an enhanced potential for sensitivity and an efficient responsiveness to external stimuli. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Wakefulness

Synonym: sleeplessness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: sleepiness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Vigilance; wakefulness; sleeplessness, restlessness; insomnia; pervigilium, insomnium; racketing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Wakefulness

English words defined with "wakefulness": Daymare ♦ Intersomnious. (references)

Specialty definitions using "wakefulness": Sleep-Wake Transition Disorders. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A kind of wakefulness (reference) Brainstem Control of Wakefulness and Sleep (reference) Hypnagogia: The Unique State of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep (reference) Sleep and Wakefulness (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	Once more I started into wakefulness, and realized that Mein Herr was not the singer.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Alexander called him, My Wakefulness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		For example, the lack of muscle tone can occur during wakefulness in a cataplexy episode. (references)
		Narcolepsy is a disabling neurological disorder of sleep regulation that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. (references)
		As a powerful stimulant, methamphetamine, even in small doses, can increase wakefulness and physical activity and decrease appetite. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Wakefulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wakefulness" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	59	44,010

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "wakefulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vigjilencë (alertness, look out, vigilance, watchfulness), syçeltësi, pagjumësi (insomnia, sleeplessness). (various references)

Arabic		‏يقظة (arousal, attentiveness, promptitude, vigil, vigilance, wake, watchfulness), ‏سهر (attend, look after, lookout, stay up, vigil, wake, watch, watchfulness), ‏أرق (insomnia, wakeful, watchful). (various references)

Bulgarian		будност (esprit), бдителност (alertness, guard, look out, outlook, vigilance, watch). (various references)

Chinese		失� (insomnia). (various references)

Czech		bdìlost (precaution, vigilance, watchfulness). (various references)

French		vigilance (wake, watch, watchfulness), insomnie. (various references)

German		Schlaflosigkeit (agrypnia, insomnia, sleeplessness). (various references)

Greek		προσοχή (advertence, attention, beware, beware of, care, caution, cave, circumspection, heed, intentness, note, notice, oyez, regard, thoughtfulness, warning, watchfulness), αγρυπνία (vigil, wake, watch). (various references)

Hebrew		עוררות (alertness, stimulation), ערות (alertness, liveliness, vigil, vigilance), ער� ות (alertness, awareness, liveliness, smartness, vigilance, watchfulness). (various references)

Hungarian		éberség (alertness, vigilance, watchfulness). (various references)

Italian		vigilanza (alertness, look out, supervision, surveillance, vigilance, watchfulness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不� (insomnia, sleeplessness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふみ�"しょう (insomnia, sleeplessness), ふみ�" (insomnia, sleeplessness). (various references)

Manx		neuchadlys (insomnia, sleeplessness), neuchadley (insomnia, sleeplessness), neuchadlaght (insomnia), dooishtys (insomnia), dooishtid (awareness), dooishtaght (insomnia). (various references)

Pig Latin		akefulnessway

Romanian		veghe (vigil, wake, ward, watch), insomnie (insomnia, restlessness, sleeplessness, vigilance). (various references)

Russian		бессонница (insomnia, vigilance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesanica (insomnia, sleeplessness, vigilance), budnost (vigil, vigilance, watch), besanica. (various references)

Spanish		desvelo (insomnia, sleeplessness, watchfulness). (various references)

Turkmen		юцwьr (care). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tỉnh táo (alertness), sự mất ngủ (insomnolence, insomnolency), sự không ngủ được sự cảnh giác. (various references)

Welsh		anhunedd (disquiet, sleeplessness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vigilia, vigiliam, vigiliarum, vigilias, vigiliis. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	zaênangha. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wakefulness": wakefulnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-k-l-n-s-s-u-w"
	-2 letters: awfulness.
	-3 letters: senseful, wakeless, weakness.
	-4 letters: alkenes, ankuses, aweless, awnless, easeful, fewness, flenses, fulness, knawels, sensual, skeanes, uneases, unseals, waeness, wakeful, weakens, weasels.
	-5 letters: aeneus, akenes, alkene, aneles, ankles, anuses, awless, easels, ensues, feases, flakes, flanes, flanks, flasks, flense, flukes, flunks, fusees, fusels, kenafs, knawel, kneels, leases, lenses, lessen, newels, seesaw, sewans, skeane, skeans.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-k-l-n-s-s-u-w"
	+2 letters: wakefulnesses.
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