Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A state of drowsiness; sleepiness.
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- n. a state of drowsiness or sleepiness
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep; sluggishness.
- n. In pathology, a state intermediate between sleeping and waking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a very sleepy state
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Ventnor sat in an armchair on the opposite side of the fire; and, finding a kind of somnolence creeping over him, pinched himself.
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Though the movie is endeavoring to rouse the youth of a nation out of some kind of somnolence, it still adheres to a retrograde movie morality out of 30s-era Hollywood.
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Thus, they could not understand his excessive somnolence in the forenoon, nor his excessive activity at night.
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She underwent what was fashionably known in those days as a cure de sommeil, a treatment that involved being pumped so full of tranquilizers she was “in a constant state of somnolence.”
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Karen occasionally talked in her sleep, muttering and mumbling, no words that he could decipher, the language of somnolence.
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But what happens in the body to cause this post-feast dip—known as postprandial somnolence in the medical community—isn't clear.
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Holiday Snooze postprandial somnolence The urge to nap after a heavy meal like the Thanksgiving feast is commonly referred to as food coma.
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Now the seismic force of the Egyptian revolution has shaken them out of years of somnolence.
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But what happens in the body to cause this post-feast dip—known as postprandial somnolence in the medical community—isn't clear, according to nutrition and sleep experts.
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Orvetti's recap at NBCWashington.com: The event was respectful to the point of somnolence, with candidates offering one-minute answers to moderators' questions and not engaging one another.
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