watchfulness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WATCHFULNESS, noun 1. Vigilance; heedfulness; heed; suspicious attention; careful and diligent observation for the purpose of preventing or escaping danger, or of avoiding mistakes and misconduct. 2. Wakefulness; indisposition or inability to sleep. WATCHFULNESS-often precedes too great sleepiness.
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