Tom's blinks became longer and longer as he entered the twilight zone between wakefulness and sleep.
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Wakefulness
//ˈweɪk.fʊl.nəs//
Synonyms for "wakefulness" (31 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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19 translations across 11 languages.
French
2 entries- vigilance noun (state of being wakeful)
- éveil noun (state of being wakeful)
Georgian
1 entries- ღვიძილი noun (state of being wakeful)
German
4 entries- Aufmerksamkeit noun (state of being wakeful)
- Schlaflosigkeit noun (state of being wakeful)
- Vigilanz noun (state of being wakeful)
- Wachheit noun (state of being wakeful)
Latin
3 entries- vigilantia noun (state of being wakeful)
- vigilia noun (state of being wakeful)
- vigilātiō noun (state of being wakeful)
Macedonian
1 entries- будност noun (state of being wakeful)
Polish
1 entries- jawa noun (state of being wakeful)
Portuguese
1 entries- vigília noun (state of being wakeful)
Russian
1 entries- бо́дрствование noun (state of being wakeful)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- java noun (state of being wakeful)
Spanish
2 entries- vela noun (state of being wakeful)
- vigilia noun (state of being wakeful)
Swedish
1 entries- vakenhet noun (state of being wakeful)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Many hundreds of lives could be saved each year if all cars were fitted with driver wakefulness monitors.
Source: tatoeba (4408717)
I was, as it were, between sleep and wakefulness.
Source: tatoeba (11666411)
Similarly, the brain-penetrating Hrh2 antagonist zolantidine had no effect on light-induced phase shift as shown for hamsters, or the lengths or distributions of NREM, REM and wakefulness states as shown on rats.
Source: wiktionary
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