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alertness

noun
/əˈlɝt.nəs/US

Etymology

From alert + -ness.

  1. derived from all'erta
  2. borrowed from alerte
  3. formed as alertness — “alert + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being alert or on the alert.

    • THE human body was meant to have a midafternoon nap, according to a new consensus among sleep researchers who are studying the biological rhythms of sleep and alertness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at alertness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01alertness02alert03alarm04summons05notice06observing07observe08attention

A definitional loop anchored at alertness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at alertness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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