watchfulness

watchfulness

noun

Definition of WATCHFULNESS

the state of being constantly attentive and responsive to signs of opportunity, activity, or danger <it was only her motherly watchfulness that saved the boy from an accident>

Synonyms alert, alertness, attentiveness, qui vive, red alert, watch, watchfulness

Related Words aliveness, awareness, consciousness, mindfulness, receptiveness, receptivity, sensitivity; care, carefulness, cautiousness, chariness, heedfulness, wariness; preparation, readiness

Near Antonyms absentmindedness, abstraction, daydreaming, daze, distraction; absorption, engrossment, obliviousness, preoccupation; unawareness, unconsciousness; carelessness, heedlessness, inattention, inattentiveness, inobservance; unwariness