The phrase "an alertness to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being aware or attentive to something specific.
Example: "The team demonstrated an alertness to potential risks during the project."
Alternatives: "a sensitivity to" or "an awareness of".
Her paintings exude an alertness to subtle, passing joys.
In a robin-egg-blue sweater and a form-fitting gray skirt, she glows with ripeness and an alertness to life.
It did what a college should: cultivate in its students an alertness to the historical origins and cultural implications of things around them.
Her poetry represented both an alertness to and an investment in the sanctified details of the natural world, a love of the music of the commonplace.
Standout work included the post-Savile drama National Treasure and the comedy Flowers, which, as a co-production with the American streamer Seeso, showed an alertness to the new means of production.
Marinetti gathered zealous adherents in Italy — where late-blooming modernization had brought an alertness to the wider world as well as an upsurge of nationalism — and organized public events calculated to scandalize.
He brought to the latter an untiring dedication in the gathering and assimilation of knowledge, an especial alertness to evidence of human fallibility and failure, and a powerful ordering intelligence supported by a delicate sense of aesthetic coherence.
What holds it all together is an exquisite aliveness to form and materials, and an acute alertness to conventions of style and representation.
What is captivating is the spirit of attentiveness they exude: an exquisite alertness to material and technique; to the way patterns and images fit the shape of the object; and to forms of nature.
Up close, however, one discovers that they are painted with a deft, lively touch so that the extreme detailing reads not as cold-blooded copying but as an affectionate alertness to the world's surfaces.
Up close, however, one discovers they are painted with a deft, lively touch so that the extreme detailing reads not as cold-blooded copying but as an affectionate alertness to the world's surfaces.
