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alertness
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alertness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | watchfulness |
| Synonyms: | attentiveness, readiness, sharpness, vigilance |
| Main Entry: | agility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental nimbleness, deftness |
| Synonyms: | activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, briskness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, liveliness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness, swiftness |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | alacrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liveliness; promptness |
| Synonyms: | alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, dispatch, eagerness, enthusiasm, expedition, fervor, gaiety, hilarity, joyousness, promptitude, quickness, readiness, speed, sprightliness, willingness, zeal |
| Antonyms: | apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference, reluctance, slowness, unwillingness |
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, acquaintanceship, alertness, aliveness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, attentiveness, bodhi, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, mindfulness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, sentience, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
| Synonyms: | alertness, caution, circumspection, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, fastidiousness, forethought, heed, interest, management, meticulousness, nicety, pains, particularity, precaution, prudence, regard, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | consciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | alertness, apprehension, awareness, care, carefulness, cognizance, concern, heed, heedfulness, mindfulness, realization, recognition, regard, sensibility |
| Antonyms: | senselessness, stupidity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attentiveness, briskness, care, carefulness, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, heedfulness, industry, intensity, intent, intentness, keenness, laboriousness, pertinacity, quickness, sedulousness, vigor |
| Antonyms: | inactivity, indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect |
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resourcefulness, energy |
| Synonyms: | activity, adventurousness, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, get-up-and-go, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, inventiveness, pluck, push, readiness, resource, self-reliance, spirit, venturesomeness, vigor, zeal |
| Antonyms: | apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
| Synonyms: | IQ, acuity, acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brainpower, brains, brightness, brilliance, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, coruscation, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, precocity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, the right stuff, trenchancy, understanding, what it takes, wit |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, ineptness |
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