wakefulness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English wakeful

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English wakefulness

From wakeful + -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪk.fʊl.nəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

wakefulness (countable and uncountable, plural wakefulnesses)

1. The state of being wakeful.
   • 2015 December 11, “On the Role of Histamine Receptors in the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Similarly, the brain-penetrating Hrh2 antagonist zolantidine had no effect on light-induced phase shift as shown for hamsters, or the lengths or distributions of NREM, REM and wakefulness states as shown on rats.

Translations

state of being wakeful

• French: éveil (fr) m, vigilance (fr) f
• Georgian: ღვიძილი (ɣviʒili)
• German: Wachsamkeit (de) f, Aufmerksamkeit (de) f, Schlaflosigkeit (de) f, Wachheit (de) f, Vigilanz (de) f
• Latin: vigilantia f, vigilātiō f, vigilia f
• Macedonian: будност f (budnost)
• Polish: jawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: vigília (pt) f
• Russian: бо́дрствование (ru) (bódrstvovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: java (sh) f
• Spanish: vigilia (es) f, vela (es) f
• Swedish: vakenhet (sv) c