Vigilance vs Investigation - What's the difference?
vigilance | investigation |
Alert watchfulness.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=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.}}
Close and continuous attention.
* 1837 March 4, (Andrew Jackson), Farewell Address
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.
As nouns the difference between vigilance and investigation
is that vigilance is alert watchfulness while investigation is investigation.vigilance
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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.