watchfulness

watchful | American Dictionary

watchful
adjective
us/ˈwɑtʃ·fəl, ˈwɔtʃ-/
giving careful attention so as to notice what is happening and be prepared for something that might happen:
If you invest heavily in the stock market, you have to stay watchful and be ready to move your money quickly.

Examples of watchful

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There are of course many people, including language scholars of great probity, who are watchful about prescription and hostile to 'prescriptivism'.
Improving one's teaching lends itself to master classes, as one hones one's craft under the watchful eye of experts.
The cost-effectiveness of early surgery versus watchful waiting in the management of small abdominal aortic aneurysms.
The options available are: watchful waiting (conservative treatment), drug therapy, prostatectomy, or alternatives to prostatectomy which are generally regarded as less or 'minimally' invasive.
A comparison of transurethral surgery with watchful waiting for moderate symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
This could be avoided by keeping a watchful eye on the size of the exposed heart and keeping the preload constant at all times.
Swedish randomized trial of radical prostatectomy versus watchful waiting.
His watchful eye spies the kernel of the poem.
This fear nonetheless made the state more watchful towards the activities of these sadhus.
Lexicographers will need to keep a watchful eye for each revision of their work.
In men over age 70 and younger men with well- differentiated disease, treatment appeared to be more harmful than watchful waiting.
It was finally read under the supervision of a watchful eye in a vast room which was not the location of the volume.
Five-year outcome of surgical resection and watchful waiting for men with moderately symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia.
The title is almost a pleonasm: the watchful guardian, the careful caregiver.
The campus, however, provided a safe space and an acceptable opportunity to socialize away from the watchful eyes of their male family members.
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