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wakefulness

state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world
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wakefulness

Summary

wakefulness ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (642 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • wakefulness followed awakening[2].
  • wakefulness is a type of state of consciousness[3].
  • wakefulness is part of psychological terminology[4].
  • wakefulness is the opposite of sleep[5].
  • wakefulness is the opposite of somnolence[6].
  • wakefulness's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[7].
  • wakefulness's partially coincident with is recorded as alertness[8].
  • wakefulness's partially coincident with is recorded as vigilance[9].
  • wakefulness's different from is recorded as Q54895106[10].

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Definition and Type

wakefulness is a type of state of consciousness[3]. Recorded opposite of include sleep[5] and somnolence[6].

Use and Application

wakefulness is part of psychological terminology[4].

Why It Matters

wakefulness ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (642 views/month).[1] wakefulness has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] wakefulness is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10h ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → alertness, vigilance
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1382]]: [[Q379784]]"
  2. 7d ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ['awake', 'wakefulness']
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q85975251 */"
  3. 13d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ['awake', 'wakefulness']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: awake, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289914713|awake (#289914713)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 5w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 48sWCk
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 10w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0334615-bdelost
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0334615-bdelost, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  6. 12w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Subclass of → state of consciousness
    Opposite of → sleep, somnolence
    Subclass of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007548770505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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