Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WATCH'FUL-NESS
WATCH'FUL-NESS, n.
- Vigilance; heedfulness; heed; suspicious attention; careful and diligent observation for the purpose of preventing or escaping danger, or of avoiding mistakes and misconduct.
- Wakefulness; indisposition or inability to sleep. Watchfulness … often precedes too great sleepiness. – Arbuthnot.
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