watchfulness

Other forms of watchfulness

plural

watchfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about watchfulness

What does watchfulness mean?

watchfulness means "the process of paying close and continuous attention". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watchfulness?

watchfulness has 3 syllables: watch-ful-ness. The stress falls on "watch".

What is another word for watchfulness?

Close synonyms include wakefulness, vigilance, alertness, vigilance, weather eye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is watchfulness a common word?

watchfulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.