Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A state of drowsiness; sleepiness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep; sluggishness.
- noun In pathology, a state intermediate between sleeping and waking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a state of
drowsiness orsleepiness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a very sleepy state
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Examples
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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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Mr. Ventnor sat in an armchair on the opposite side of the fire; and, finding a kind of somnolence creeping over him, pinched himself.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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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.
Five Tales John Galsworthy 1900
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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.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Karen occasionally talked in her sleep, muttering and mumbling, no words that he could decipher, the language of somnolence.
Furlough 2009
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Karen occasionally talked in her sleep, muttering and mumbling, no words that he could decipher, the language of somnolence.
Furlough 2009
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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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But what happens in the body to cause this post-feast dip—known as postprandial somnolence in the medical community—isn't clear.
Week in Words 2011
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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.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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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.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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