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
The expression reveals a certain degree of incompetence and sluggishness in the individual concerned, and signifies a lack of wide-awakeness and responsiveness.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
He did not, being of a continuous shrewd alertness himself, a continuous wide-awakeness and minute consideration of consequences, realize, and if he had he wouldn't have believed, the affectionate simplicity and unworldliness of Mr. Twist.
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
