Crossword clues for alertness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alertness \A*lert"ness\, n. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1714, from alert + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
WordNet
n. the process of paying close and continuous attention [syn: watchfulness, vigilance]
a state of readiness to respond; "alerting was indicated by the desynchronization of the EEG" [syn: alerting]
lively attentiveness [syn: on the qui vive]
Wikipedia
Alertness is the state of active attention by high sensory awareness such as being watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency, or being quick to perceive and act. It is related to psychology as well as to physiology. A lack of alertness is a symptom of a number of conditions, including narcolepsy, attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, Addison's disease, or sleep deprivation. Pronounced lack of alertness can be graded as an altered level of consciousness. The word is formed from "alert", which comes from the Italian "all'erta" (on the watch, literally, on the height; 1618)
Usage examples of "alertness".
This central nervous system stimulant, used by more than eighty million Americans, is the only food ingredient that actually mimics the stress response, giving you an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and glucose availability to the brain that increases alertness.
Kosygin knew Zhukov studied him as he spoke, always testing his alertness, but he had difficulty paying attention while he subtly shook his leg in attempts to dislodge Laika from his ankle.
His arm was curled around Muffit Two, who maintained a droid alertness, even giving Apollo and Serina a fast once-over when they entered the room.
Her face in pouchy sleep might have been a structure designed solely to protect the eyes, those great, large and apprehensive things, prone to color phases and a darting alertness, to a perception of distress in others.
Indian alertness that a ranchman farther down the corral heard nothing.
He barked out an order and four of the following sowars came forward and stationed themselves in front and on either side of Joe, all scanning the slopes ahead and on each side with increased alertness.
The only protection, then, is to be in a perpetual state of centeredness in undirected alertness, every ready for sudden attack and immediate response.
From momentary absentmindedness, his stare sharpened to total alertness.
The only protection, then, is to be in a perpetual state of centeredness in undirected alertness, every ready for sudden attack and immediate response.
The American cryptanalytic organization swept through this miasma of apathy to reach a peak of alertness and accomplishment unmatched on that day of infamy by any other agency in the United States.
And even if he had been surprised, the Fravashi strive at all times to maintain an attitude of zanshin, a state of relaxed mental alertness in the face of danger or surprise.
But Jukes had not reckoned on the alertness of that strange man in black.
Most of the animals did not look very sick yet, but they did not display the alertness, the usual monkeys energy, the leaping and the cage rattling that you see in healthy monkeys, and most of them had not eaten their morning biscuits.
But the result the same - constant danger, unremitting alertness, night after night at sea, healthy and stodgily - dull food, infrequent mail: no beer, no dances, no girls.
He never slept, but huddled under the camouflaged groundsheet now and again for a necessary breather and a return to full alertness.