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How to pronounce watchfulness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms vigilance, weather eye
Type of attentiveness
Derivation watchful
Type Words
Synonyms alertness, vigilance, wakefulness
Type of attention
Has types jealousy
Derivation watchful


wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter.

Examples of watchfulness

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They are a universal symbol for watchfulness, for mindfulness as well as compassion.
From the stltoday.com
As a result of that watchfulness, a rift developed between the two groups in the 1960s.
From the inrich.com
Users of exchanges, though, need more than just regulatory watchfulness.
From the economist.com
But if this watchfulness starts to become possessiveness, then you may be overdoing it.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Our government works as well as it does because it's based on mutual watchfulness, not trust.
From the dailyherald.com
A porter got his position for his watchfulness, not for his dreaming.
From the nytimes.com
That spell jolted the sparse crowd out of its torpor and into a state of edgy watchfulness.
From the independent.co.uk
His surly watchfulness frames the film, disabused, never expecting anything good to happen.
From the guardian.co.uk
The technology of computer voting is frequently changing, and this sort of watchfulness is good.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
More examples
  • The process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue"
  • Vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble"
  • (watchful) alert: engaged in or accustomed to close observation; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
  • (watchful) insomniac: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
  • Watchful (1997) is an album by the American experimental pop music group Amoeba. This is the first Amoeba album to feature the classic lineup of Robert Rich and Rick Davies. The style of this album consists of subtle and largely acoustic pop compositions with heavy ambient textures.
  • Alertness, vigilance or wakefulness
  • (watchful) observant, vigilant and aware
  • Spiritual alertness, constant attentiveness and readiness so that the thought won't progress from the reason and enter into the heart. It is only the nous that must be within the heart and not the thoughts-logismoi. This spiritual alertness is called nepsis.