wide-awake
adjective
fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
wide-awakeness
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a word derived from
wide-awake.
Example Sentences
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The infant displayed that aggressive wide-awakeness which seems to characterize babies on the verge of somnolence.
From The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories by Margaret Collier Graham
In British India I have known Brahmans of the better type exactly with the same sallow complexion, same quick and observant brown eye, same portly figure and same wide-awakeness and agility of manner.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
The morning sun already poured into her room, when Mora opened her eyes, waking suddenly with that complete wide-awakeness which follows upon profound and dreamless slumber.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
Call it that, call it self-help, call it energy, call it self-reliance, call it by the popular name of wide-awakeness, and you transfigure the fault into a merit.
From Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil by Max Simon Nordau
And if I did finally get to sleep it was only to be shocked immediately into wide-awakeness with the pitiless light.
From Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens
