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Alertness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a state of readiness to respond

n. the process of paying close and continuous attention

n. lively attentiveness

Word Usage

"The undead we encountered were a nice exercise in alertness, because some of them were invisible, and as we fought our way through them up to the parapet where the questgiver waited for us, I admired our solid teamwork."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

arousal attentiveness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

briskness nimbleness activity

Verb Stem

alert

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

inertness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

quickness agility vivacity sagacity versatility