Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being wide-awake or sharp.
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Examples
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A gradual, unnatural onset of wide-awakeness was taking hold, likely brought on by whatever had been in that injection.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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A gradual, unnatural onset of wide-awakeness was taking hold, likely brought on by whatever had been in that injection.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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A gradual, unnatural onset of wide-awakeness was taking hold, likely brought on by whatever had been in that injection.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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A gradual, unnatural onset of wide-awakeness was taking hold, likely brought on by whatever had been in that injection.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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A gradual, unnatural onset of wide-awakeness was taking hold, likely brought on by whatever had been in that injection.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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The two pairs of eyes looked into each other for a moment, singularly alike in a certain intent expression, developed into great keenness in the man, but showing as yet only an extreme wide-awakeness in the boy.
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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Trixie could only hear snatches, but what she heard jarred her into wide-awakeness.
The Red Trailer Mystery Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1950
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Trixie could only hear snatches, but what she heard jarred her into wide-awakeness.
The Red Trailer Mystery Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1950
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Trixie could only hear snatches, but what she heard jarred her into wide-awakeness.
The Red Trailer Mystery Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1950
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To my intense interest, and almost at once, the strange sense of some power operating on the nerve-forces within, followed by the same loss of muscular power, the same wide-awakeness of the reason, the same drawing out and concentrating of the energies on that spot in front, repeated itself, this time more deliberately, leaving me freer to take mental notes of what was happening.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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