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# watchfulness

«watchfulness» in Mova's school dictionary: **careful looking out, keeping alert so that nothing bad…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Watchfulness is careful looking out, keeping alert so that nothing bad happens without your noticing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the careful alertness that keeps creatures safe, or that gets them caught when they are not careful enough

### examples

- The Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#x1)
- Without my watchfulness our boat would have drifted away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#x2)
- A life of watchfulness is tiring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «watchfulness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watchfulness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.