Usually means: Feeling sleepy, needing rest soon.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word drowsiness:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. drowsiness: Merriam-Webster
  2. drowsiness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drowsiness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. drowsiness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Drowsiness, drowsiness: Wordnik
  6. drowsiness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. drowsiness: Wiktionary
  8. Drowsiness, drowsiness: Dictionary.com
  9. drowsiness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Drowsiness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Drowsiness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. drowsiness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. drowsiness: Rhymezone
  14. Drowsiness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. drowsiness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. drowsiness: FreeDictionary.org
  17. drowsiness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. drowsiness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drowsiness: Legal dictionary

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. drowsiness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Drowsiness: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  5. drowsiness: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drowsiness)

▸ noun:  State of being drowsy.

Similar:
somnolence, sleepiness, doziness, daziness, snooziness, sleepfulness, dazedness, unsleepiness, drugginess, dopiness, more...

Opposite:
alertness, wakefulness, attentiveness, liveliness

Types:
sleepy, lethargic, fatigued, exhausted, weary, sluggish, torpid, comatose, stupefied, more...

Phrases:
Driver drowsiness detection, displayed drowsiness, tending to induce drowsiness, more...

Adjectives:
daytime, excessive, great, extreme, severe, slight, irresistible, mild, marked, heavy, less

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Similar:
somnolence, sleepiness, doziness, daziness, snooziness, sleepfulness, dazedness, unsleepiness, drugginess, dopiness, more...

Opposite:
alertness, wakefulness, attentiveness, liveliness

Types:
sleepy, lethargic, fatigued, exhausted, weary, sluggish, torpid, comatose, stupefied, more...

Phrases:
Driver drowsiness detection, displayed drowsiness, tending to induce drowsiness, more...

Adjectives:
daytime, excessive, great, extreme, severe, slight, irresistible, mild, marked, heavy, less



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