Associations to the word «Alertness»

Wiktionary

ALERTNESS, noun. The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

Dictionary definition

ALERTNESS, noun. The process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue".
ALERTNESS, noun. A state of readiness to respond; "alerting was indicated by the desynchronization of the EEG".
ALERTNESS, noun. Lively attentiveness.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin