watchfulness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "1784, Samuel Johnson, letter addressed to Mr. Langton dated 25 August, 1784, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 545, Nights of watchfulness produce torpid days […]"
- "Every dark form in the dimness had its ominous quality, its peculiar suggestion of alert watchfulness."
- "The steady rhythm of the engines, the fact that he had been sleeping badly, the boredom of a flight that he had done so many times before and did not want to do again, the long humiliation and unhappiness that was always in the background of his mind, all fought against his watchfulness."
Etymology
Etymology tree English watchful 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 watchfulness From watchful + -ness.