Antonyms for vigilance
ˈvɪdʒ ə lənsvig·i·lance

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1. vigilance

   Care concerns what we possess; anxiety, often, what we do not; riches bring many cares; poverty brings many anxieties. Care also signifies watchful attention, in view of possible harm; as, "This side up with care;" "Take care of yourself;" or, as a sharp warning, "Take care!" Caution has a sense of possible harm and risk only to be escaped, if at all, by careful deliberation and observation. Care inclines to the positive, caution to the negative; care is shown in doing, caution largely in not doing. Precaution is allied with care, prudence with caution; a man rides a dangerous horse with care; caution will keep him from mounting the horse; precaution looks to the saddle-girths, bit and bridle, and all that may make the rider secure. Circumspection is watchful observation and calculation, but without the timidity implied in caution. Concern denotes a serious interest, milder than anxiety; as, concern for the safety of a ship at sea. Heed implies attention without disquiet; it is now largely displaced by attention and care. Solicitude involves especially the element of desire, not expressed in anxiety, and of hopefulness, not implied in care. A parent feels constant solicitude for his children's welfare, anxiety as to dangers that threaten it, with care to guard against them. Watchfulness recognizes the possibility of danger, wariness the probability. A man who is not influenced by caution to keep out of danger may display great wariness in the midst of it. Care has also the sense of responsibility, with possible control, as expressed in charge, management, oversight; as, these children are under my care; send the money to me in care of the firm. Compare ALARM; ANXIETY; PRUDENCE.

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, disregard, heedlessness, inattention, indifference, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight, recklessness, remissness, slight

   Synonyms:
   anxiety, attention, care, caution, charge, circumspection, concern, direction, forethought, heed, management, oversight, perplexity, precaution, prudence, solicitude, trouble, wariness, watchfulness, worry

   Preposition:
   Take care of the house; for the future; about the matter.

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1. vigilance

   Antonyms:
   drowsiness, inattention, carelessness, indulgence, somnolence, inobservance, inactivity, indifference, connivance, unwatchfulness

   Synonyms:
   watchfulness, observance, wakefulness, sleeplessness, carefulness, activity, circumspection

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1. watchfulness, wakefulness, vigilance, alertnessnoun

   the process of paying close and continuous attention

   "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue"

   Synonyms:
   alerting, alertness, wakefulness, on the qui vive, sharp-sightedness, weather eye, watchfulness, sleeplessness

2. watchfulness, vigilance, weather eyenoun

   vigilant attentiveness

   "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble"

   Synonyms:
   alertness, weather eye, watchfulness, wakefulness

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1. vigilancenoun

   Synonyms:
   watchfulness, circumspection, attention, caution

How to use vigilance in a sentence?

1. Yves Naffrechoux:

   Since they don't know the mountains, you need to provide them with equipment, you need to hold them with rope, give them crampons so they can work well and as precisely as possible, so that no evidence, no body part could escape their vigilance.

2. Muhammadu Buhari:

   Fellow Nigerians, I urge you to exercise patience and vigilance as we wait for all results to be announced.

3. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve:

   Our country, like other European countries, faces a new terrorist threat by its nature and by its scale, our vigilance and our determination are total and constant. The police services are completely mobilized.

4. Benjamin Chapman:

   It's not just one area, we need more vigilance on the farm level. We need better technology in production and distribution. It's consumer habits. We need to rethink the methods we have been looking at or do them in a smarter and better way. It really is : How do we get Healthy People 2020 to care about this ?

5. Alain Juppe:

   I am ready to help him of course if we take the course I have set out, rallying the right and the centre, we will see for the (presidential) primaries. That's not the subject. The opposite of vigilance is what? It's going to sleep? I am not going to go to sleep.

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