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watchfulness

watchfulness noun: the state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.

Noun

watchfulness (countable and uncountable, plural watchfulnesses)

  1. The state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.
    • Continuous watchfulness is maintained around the clock.
    • The first thing to be undertaken in this weighty work, is a watchfulness over the failings and an inlargement of the dominion, of the Senses.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Preface

watchfulness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

watchfulness in Hindi

alertness, vigilance or wakefulness
सतर्कता satarkatā, सजगता sajagtā

watchfulness in Tamil

தூங்காமை, விழிப்பு, கண்விழிப்பு, அமந்தம், சாகரம், விழிப்பாயிருத்தல்

watchfulness in Urdu

بیداری, خبر, مراقبت

watchfulness in Bengali

alertness, vigilance or wakefulness
সতর্কীকরণ śotorkikron
More languagesFewer languages
watchfulness in Kannada
ಜಾಗರೂಕತೆ

Forms of watchfulness

pluralwatchfulnesses

Origin of watchfulness

From watchful + -ness.

Questions about watchfulness

What does watchfulness mean?
Watchfulness means the state or quality of being watchful; alertness, vigilance or wakefulness.
What is watchfulness in Hindi?
Watchfulness in Hindi is सतर्कता (satarkatā), सजगता (sajagtā). See Watchfulness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is watchfulness?
Watchfulness is a noun.
What is the plural of watchfulness?
The plural of watchfulness is watchfulnesses.

Words near watchfulness in the dictionary

  1. watchful
  2. watchful waiting
  3. watchful waitings
  4. watchfull
  5. watchfully
  6. watchfulness
  7. watchfulnesse
  8. watchfulnesses
  9. watchgeese
  10. watchglass
  11. watchglasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watchfulness (page history and authors); watchfulness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); watchfulness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); watchfulness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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