Associations to the word «Vigilance»

Wiktionary

VIGILANCE, noun. Alert watchfulness.
VIGILANCE, noun. Close and continuous attention.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE, noun. (US) (historical) A group of private citizens who administered justice where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate.

Dictionary definition

VIGILANCE, noun. The process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue".
VIGILANCE, noun. Vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne