Crossword clues for wakefulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wakeful \Wake"ful\, a. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster] -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being wakeful.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: sleeplessness] [ant: sleepiness]
Wikipedia
Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world such as communication, ambulation, eating, and sex. Being awake is the opposite of the state of being asleep in which most external inputs to the brain are excluded from neural processing.
Usage examples of "wakefulness".
Perhaps it was the warmth of the room, or simply the closeness of so many bodies, but I dreamed vividly and erotically, the tides of arousal washing me now and then near to the shores of wakefulness, then once more carrying me out into the deeps of unconsciousness.
I had never known the meaning of insomnia, but for many nights, turgid jugular veins and floating emboli brought me gasping to wakefulness.
After my first night under the stars--wondrous night of wakefulness and hopeful music, throughout which I lay entranced at the foot of a wooded hill and was never for a moment uncompanioned by nightingale, cicala and firefly--I began to suffer from footsoreness, a bodily affliction against which romance, that certain salve for the maladies of the soul, is no remedy, or very little.
He rolled over the leeboard and slumped onto the side bench, trying to force himself into a semblance of wakefulness.
There are pains in the chest, wakefulness, and during the night lascivious thoughts and desires.
Smith the runesmith let go his shred of wakefulness and plunged joyfully into the healing depths.
All those uncouth forms, and the throb of the sea outside, presently faded upon my senses, and I slept the heavy sleep of one whose wakefulness gives way before an imperious physical demand.
Bethlarii snapped sharply into wakefulness, their dreams untypically fresh and vivid in their minds, and words, sacrilegious words, ringing in their ears.
Wakefulness is never diminished by any object that it witnesses, and yet is never apart from what it witnesses either, just as the reflections on an empty mirror are never apart from it.
Sometimes God grants His greatest revelations during that twilight time when the soul hangs suspended between sleep and wakefulness.
The furtive glance which Theodoric stole at her from time to time disclosed only an unwinking wakefulness.
So went vague thoughts in the back of my mind, but what was bringing me into full wakefulness was a puzzling, bemusing thought, a thought that was there and yet wasn't.
He browsed, barely thinking, for days, his mind adrift in a place halfway between dreaming and wakefulness.
Nagarjuna's Mahayana (Madhyamika) revolution, on the other hand, was Non-dual (advaya) to the core, seeing that nirvana and samsara are "not two," which also gave rise to tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, where even the lowest defilements were seen to be perfect expressions of primordial wakefulness (rigpa).
When wakefulness is enforced, no bodily functions go seriously awry except those of the brain.