SuaviloquyToday’s word

wakeful

Wakeful, a.

Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. Dryden. -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for wakeful; he lists it under vigilant.

Where he writes about it:

A person may be wakeful because of some merely physical excitement or excitability, as through insomnia; yet he may be utterly careless and negligent in his wakefulness, the reverse of watchful; a person who is truly watchful must keep himself wakeful while on watch, in which case wakeful has something of mental quality. — from vigilant