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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "wakefulness" in a sentence

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    wakefulness


    1. A steady hum … something alien? … machinery? … the woman in the bed became aware of consciousness … and with that broader wakefulness came other sensations


    2. One of the mums gave birth that morning and they brought the baby in to show Bunty during one of her periods of wakefulness


    3. she finally laid her head on her pillow after countless hours of wakefulness after


    4. IF I were able to maintain that new found wakefulness and peace until she was satisfied I wouldn't relapse into the blustering baboon of bravado I knew had always been


    5. She tried to scream herself to wakefulness, but couldn’t


    6. Fluffing up my pillows, I closed my eyes and tried to settle down to sleep again, but just as I’d reached that delightful stage between sleep and wakefulness, where troubles cease to exist, I heard a goose honk loudly


    7. A long deep groan followed her from sleep into wakefulness


    8. transition point between full wakefulness and sleep


    9. A rage of helpless frustration roused Moshe nearly to wakefulness as he pawed uselessly at the nothingness that surrounded him


    10. Badly needed sleep again tugged at wakefulness

    11. A rage of helpless frustration roused Moshe nearly to wakefulness as he pawed uselessly at


    12. He sprang into wakefulness, the sweat of fear full upon his brow


    13. Within this sound came Master’s voice that brought me back to wakefulness


    14. So supersensitive were her drugged senses, that the light touch was like a dislocating impact, jolting her rudely into full wakefulness


    15. But it‘s how you begin to live all the time toward the end of your metamorphosis……… There‘s nothing to it except observation, awareness, vigilance, wakefulness


    16. Siri had been badly shaken up and, as he drifted into a space between wakefulness and slumber, he began to relive the whole episode


    17. To maintain his heading at an acute angle into the wind, Siri had to be constantly tacking, and it took two days and a night of constant wakefulness to reach the island of Mallorca


    18. Through the soporific phase, he fought the battle for wakefulness, which only the very strong could win


    19. In every day wakefulness, in a fully conscious state


    20. Not in regression, hypnosis, or under psychotherapy, but in ordinary everyday wakefulness, the following approach was taken

    21. I fell in and out of wakefulness listening to the wind whistling around me and feeling the gentle rocking of the truck when the gusts hit broadside


    22. The hours of wakefulness took a toll on Locke’s eyelids, pulling him into dreamless sleep


    23. Unlike the other altered states of consciousness, hypnosis isn’t accompanied by a physical deviation from the state of wakefulness


    24. ing wakefulness creates in the central nervous system a high level of internal noise that impedes the flow of processes of integration and association


    25. which regulate his food and recreation, and sleep and wakefulness, and


    26. only in the hours of wakefulness but also in sleep


    27. the night in a state blurred between sleep and wakefulness


    28. Exinder lay inside, burning with fever and passing in and out of wakefulness, as close to the Death Realm as he could get


    29. The two hoods shrugged into wakefulness


    30. When she awakened, entangled in arms and legs, in that twilight between sleep and wakefulness, she looked at the boy beside her, expecting to see Brock

    31. Tussie was sitting at the other end of the table very limp and sad after a night of tiresome tossing that was neither wholly sleep nor wholly wakefulness, and sheltered by various dishes with spirit-lamps burning beneath them worked gloomily at a sonnet inspired by the girl he had met the day before while his mother thought he was eating his patent food


    32. and then wakefulness never truly returns


    33. Something smooth and silky and not altogether pleasant wriggled to wakefulness in Loofah's head and he shuddered


    34. At instants of momentary wakefulness he mistook a bush for his associate sentinel; his head next sank upon his shoulder, which, in its turn, sought the support of the ground; and, finally, his whole person became relaxed and pliant, and the young man sank into a deep sleep, dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a recaptured princess, whose favor he did not despair of gaining, by such a proof of devotion and watchfulness


    35. He sleeps, he supposes, but in the zombie-like daze in which he finds himself, it’s hard to distinguish between sleep and wakefulness, between dream and reality


    36. Mac was alone in his wakefulness, his mind spinning with fear


    37. In the space between dreaming and wakefulness, I think of a real argument, long ago—four years ago—after our first and only round of IVF failed, when I wanted to try again


    38. He tried to steal in, but was baffled by your wakefulness


    39. Light fills the room, coaxing me from deep sleep to wakefulness


    40. If she could only reach it! If she could only reach it she would be safe! But terror was weakening her legs, hunger above her and Melanie’s hand shaking her to wakefulness

    41. he felt himself shaken, and he came back painfully to wakefulness


    42. night in wakefulness and they were aware of many things half-seen that


    43. Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune


    44. As if struck by some enchanter's wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all at once started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from all parts of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from aloft, shouted forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air


    45. When Lindley had shaken him into some semblance of wakefulness, he only stammered:


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    Synonyms for "wakefulness"

    wakefulness alertness vigilance watchfulness sleeplessness

    "wakefulness" definitions

    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


    the process of paying close and continuous attention