Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sleeplessness; insomnia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sleeplessness.
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- noun
sleeplessness
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Examples
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As for myself, had I the wings of an eagle, most likely I should still fly to you, and to several other quarters; but with railways and tub-gigs, and my talent for insomnolence, and fretting myself to fiddlestrings with all terrestrial locomotion whatsoever -- alas, alas!
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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Also, the side effect profile is very benign, with a very small incidence of insomnolence in the clinical trials but not much else.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha Sheff Station 2010
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