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- noun literary A dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally with reference to an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar. Most often used in reference to medieval poetry and literature.
Etymologies
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From Old French.
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…expressions of ontological and vocal crisis can be situated within a traditional medieaval poetic commonplace known as dorveille, a psychological term describing the peculiar psycho-physical and spiritual depression suffered by bardic narrators, who typically complain of bodily exhaustion, restlessness, social withdrawal, or hypnotic suspension, an ontological dimunition linked with the sin of acedia — a psychic deterioration or apathy which fears its own vocal erasure into silence.
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