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vigilance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪləns/ weak vowel merger
• (US) audio
• /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlɪns/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vigilance, from Latin vigilantia.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Alert watchfulness.
   • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • To-night she took her accustomed place; for, during the night, no vigilance could satisfy her but her own: any eye but hers might close in momentary forgetfulness. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 153–154:
2. (uncountable, usually) Close and continuous attention.
   • But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. 1837 March 4, Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address:
   • […] similarly, the empiriocritics' opposition to religion was a fraud intended to lull the vigilance of the proletariat and lead it by different paths in the same direction as religious mythology. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 452:
3. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A guard; a person set to watch.

Forms

Deriveds

vigilance man · hypovigilance · in vigilance · phytovigilance · hypervigilance · pharmacovigilance · vigilance committee · hemovigilance · unvigilance · toxicovigilance · haemovigilance · biovigilance · addictovigilance · invigilance

Relateds

vigilant

Translations (72)

es vigilancia (Alert watchfulness) · fr vigilance (Close and continuous attention) · ru бди́тельность (Alert watchfulness) · cs bdělost (Alert watchfulness) · da årvågenhed (Close and continuous attention) · hi सजगता (Close and continuous attention) · de Wachsamkeit (Close and continuous attention) · pl uwaga (Alert watchfulness) · pl baczenie (Alert watchfulness) · pl czujność (Alert watchfulness) · ka სიფხიზლე (Alert watchfulness) · lt pastabumas (Alert watchfulness) · es alerta (Alert watchfulness) · nl waaksheid (Close and continuous attention) · ca vigilància (Close and continuous attention) · pl czujność (Close and continuous attention) · el επαγρύπνηση (Alert watchfulness) · el επαγρύπνηση (Close and continuous attention) · fr vigilance (Alert watchfulness) · it vigilanza (Close and continuous attention) · nl waakzaamheid (Close and continuous attention) · lv modrība (Alert watchfulness) · ro vigilență (Alert watchfulness) · bn সতর্কীকরণ (Alert watchfulness) · pt vigilância (Alert watchfulness) · pt vigilância (Close and continuous attention) · ro vigilență (Close and continuous attention) · la vigilantia (Alert watchfulness) · bn সতর্কীকরণ (Close and continuous attention) · sv uppmärksamhet (Close and continuous attention) · hi सतर्कता (Close and continuous attention) · hi सतर्कता (Alert watchfulness) · ka ფხიზლობა (Close and continuous attention) · uk пильність (Close and continuous attention) · uk пильність (Alert watchfulness) · nb årvåkenhet (Close and continuous attention) · hy զգոնություն (Close and continuous attention) · ar يَقَظَة (Alert watchfulness) · es alerta (Close and continuous attention) · hi सजगता (Alert watchfulness) · fi tarkkaavaisuus (Close and continuous attention) · hy զգոնություն (Alert watchfulness) · lv modrums (Alert watchfulness) · da årvågenhed (Alert watchfulness) · sv vigilans (Alert watchfulness) · es vigilancia (Close and continuous attention) · ast vixilancia (Alert watchfulness) · ru бди́тельность (Close and continuous attention) · nb årvåkenhet (Alert watchfulness) · sv vaksamhet (Alert watchfulness) · sv vigilans (Close and continuous attention) · fi valppaus (Alert watchfulness) · de Wachsamkeit (Alert watchfulness) · eo vigleco (Alert watchfulness) · hu éberség (Alert watchfulness) · ka სიფხიზლე (Close and continuous attention) · sk bedlivosť (Alert watchfulness) · ast vixilancia (Close and continuous attention) · cmn 警覺 /警觉 (Alert watchfulness) · eo vigleco (Close and continuous attention) · cs bdělost (Close and continuous attention) · la vigilantia (Close and continuous attention) · fi valppaus (Close and continuous attention) · bg бдителност (Alert watchfulness) · ca vigilància (Alert watchfulness) · nl waaksheid (Alert watchfulness) · it vigilanza (Alert watchfulness) · ka ფხიზლობა (Alert watchfulness) · fi tarkkaavaisuus (Alert watchfulness) · ar يَقْظَة (Alert watchfulness) · nl waakzaamheid (Alert watchfulness) · cs vigilita (Alert watchfulness)