Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of walking about, with the performance of apparently purposive acts, while in a state intermediate between sleep and waking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sleepwalking
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun walking by a person who is asleep
Etymologies
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Examples
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As some folks take the root parts of the word somnambulism to be literally walking while one sleeps, they miss the historical context for why the word has been misapplied and is now generally accepted to mean something the roots have nothing to do with.
Hyperempiria and Experiential Hypnosis . . . . . . differences, similarities, and what's the same 2005
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As some folks take the root parts of the word somnambulism to be literally walking while one sleeps, they miss the historical context for why the word has been misapplied and is now generally accepted to mean something the roots have nothing to do with.
Life of Brian: 2005
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Yes, even one year ago a professor of medicine confessed to me, should I pronounce the word somnambulism I'd be ruined.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 1856
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Jon is calling somnambulism hypnosis while others have a wider definition of what hypnosis is.
Is all hypnosis self-hypnosis? Is all self-hypnosis hypnosis? 2004
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Jon is calling somnambulism hypnosis while others have a wider definition of what hypnosis is.
Life of Brian: 2004
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I want to make certain I've got strong imaginative involvement usually characterized as somnambulism the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind so I will suggest it.
Life of Brian: 2004
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I want to make certain I've got strong imaginative involvement usually characterized as somnambulism the bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind so I will suggest it.
Nipple Buttons 2004
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There is also a lighter phase than somnambulism, that is called fascination.
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The worst phase of his somnambulism was the impending fears and terrible visions to which he was subjected.
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The worst phase of his somnambulism was the impending fears and terrible visions to which he was subjected.
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