Synonyms for alertness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : uh-lurt

Phonetic Transcription : əˈlɜrt

Définition of alertness

Origin : 1714, from alert + -ness.

noun watchfulness

Example sentences :

His lines were gracefully full, his bearing had still the alertness of youth.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

They praised his eyes' alertness, the smoothness of his muscles.
Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall

The only change in it that they could notice was an accession of alertness.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

All the alertness which had marked his coming had dropped away from him.
Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray

And in alertness and resourcefulness it is second only to the desire for wealth itself.
Extract from : « Is civilization a disease? » by Stanton Coit

Alertness was in every movement, in every flash of his great eyes.
Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum

In his manner there was an alertness, evinced rather in look than in movement.
Extract from : « Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman » by J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

But its interest lay in the alertness of the destroyers to danger.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various

This does not speak well for the alertness of our publishers.
Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 » by Various

With the alertness of an Indian she heard the crackling of twigs in the underbrush.
Extract from : « Tess of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White

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