Synonyms:
watchfulness, wakefulness, vigilance, alertness
Meaning: the process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue"
Usage examples
Only the strictest vigilance saved us.
"It's well that we're showing vigilance," said Colonel Winchester to Dick.
He was a vigilance committee in himself through sheer force of personality.
And was brought abruptly to full alertness, vigilance, by the flame of rage that filled the eyes thrust so close.
The constant state of vigilance and suspicion in which my mind was retained, worked a very rapid change in my character.
These they expected, but all were overcome, and they reached the Vigilance Committee, in Philadelphia safely, and were cordially welcomed.
They took possession of the stone fort which the French had abandoned, and where, with reasonable vigilance, they could maintain themselves against attack.
Though the miners were of the same class as the 'argonauts' of California, they never broke into the lawlessness that compelled vigilance committees in San Francisco.
Their first step was to strengthen the naval force on the American coast and by additional vigilance to put some sort of check on the wholesale smuggling which prevailed.
Line upon line, and precept upon precept, the tender parent expects from the teacher to whom he confides his child; vigilance unwearied, day and night, through long years.