Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
dreamless ; lack ofdreams .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dreamlessness.
Examples
-
From fever dream, he moved into welcome dreamlessness, and from then into the pain that always woke him when his medicines wore off.
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
-
From fever dream, he moved into welcome dreamlessness, and from then into the pain that always woke him when his medicines wore off.
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
-
Cramps and glare woke him up sweaty and itchy; his foot hit the horn and black dreamlessness became sound waves bouncing off four bloody walls.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
-
And until tonight there had scarcely been time even to think, her days had been full, at night she had gone to bed to sleep in happy dreamlessness.
-
The stars watched over her, a pale, worn-out girl sleeping alone in the heart of the wilderness; the night breezes sang through the century-old tree-tops; and Judith, having striven to the utter-most, slept in heavy dreamlessness.
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.