n
(informal) A sensation akin to an electric shock in the brain, associated with the discontinuation of treatment with antidepressants.
adj
Of or relating to stupor.
n
(medicine) Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
n
A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
n
Alternative spelling of coma vigil [(medicine) A state in which the patient lies with eyes open, yet unresponsive to the outside world.]
adj
(informal) Fast asleep.
adv
In, or as if in, a coma; in a manner that is sluggish, oblivious, etc.
n
(obsolete) The act of sleeping, or of lulling to sleep.
n
a prolonged sleep therapy
n
(pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
adj
(medicine) Producing, or precipitating the development of delirium
adj
Alternative spelling of dormitive [Causing sleep.]
n
(historical) A technique for learning by listening to recordings of spoken material, while asleep or awake.
n
Obsolete form of drowsihead. [(obsolete) drowsiness]
n
The act of one who drowses.
adj
Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
n
A syndrome of psychomotor agitation with delirium and sweating, typically diagnosed post-mortem after dying while being detained by police.
n
A culture-bound syndrome primarily reported in the southern United States and the Caribbean, described as a constricted consciousness as a psychological response to anxiety and stress.
n
A culture-bound syndrome among the Miskito people of eastern Central America, mainly affecting young women with anxiety, nausea, and sometimes violent frenzy.
n
Obsolete form of hectic. [(obsolete) A hectic fever.]
n
(science fiction) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
n
(medicine) Excessive sleepiness
adj
(pathology) Excessively sleepy
adj
Suffering from or pertaining to insomnia.
adj
characterized by an inability to sleep, experiencing insomnia.
n
sleepwalking induced by the moonlight
n
(archaic, rare) Alternative form of lung-sickness
n
(psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
adj
(pharmacology) Inducing sleep; causing narcosis.
v
(intransitive) To sleepwalk.
n
(rare) One who sleepwalks at night; a somnambulist.
n
(medicine, chiefly attributive) Non-rapid eye movement, non-REM; designating the stage or stages of sleep when there is no dreaming and brain activity is reduced.
adj
(figuratively) Inducing sleep; soporific.
n
(archaic) wakefulness; mild insomnia
n
Alternative spelling of presyncope [(medicine) Lightheadedness, muscular weakness and feeling faint as opposed to a syncope, which is actually fainting.]
v
(informal) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
n
Rapid movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep
n
(psychology) A form of depression associated with the lack of natural light during the winter months.
n
The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.
n
A form of non-rapid eye movement parasomnia that causes people to engage in various sexual acts while they are asleep.
n
(rare) One who exhibits sexsomnia.
n
(rare) The act of driving a vehicle while asleep and unaware of one's actions.
adj
Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
n
(dated) A liquid medicine that induces sleep.
n
(pharmacology) A pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of sleep.
n
A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
n
Unconscious talking in one's sleep.
n
One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
n
The state of one who is mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
n
Someone who walks about in their sleep.
n
The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.
adj
Tending to induce sleep.
adj
Obsolete form of slumbery. [Inclined to sleep; sleepy or sleeping; (by extension) quiet and slow-paced.]
adj
Resembling or characteristic of slumber; sleeplike.
adj
Sleep-inducing; tedious.
n
Alternative form of somnambulance [(rare) somnambulism]
adj
walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.
adv
While, or as if, sleepwalking.
adj
Relating to sleepwalking.
n
(rare) The phenomenon of sleepwalking.
n
(archaic) A somnambulist, or sleepwalker.
adj
(figuratively) Going through the motions.
n
(archaic) A somnambulist.
n
Alternative form of somnambulance [(rare) somnambulism]
n
Alternative form of somnambulance [(rare) somnambulism]
adj
related to somnambulism, walking in sleep
adv
In a somnambulic manner.
v
Alternative form of somnambulize [To sleepwalk; to somnambulate.]
v
To sleepwalk; to somnambulate.
adj
Inclined to sleepwalk.
adj
(rare) Pertaining to dreams.
v
To cause to become drowsy.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Relating to sleep or dreams.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial.
adj
(obsolete) Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy.
adj
Inducing or causing sleep.
adj
(pharmacology) causing or inducing sleep, normally with harmful overtones.
adj
Causing sleep; somniferous.
n
The condition (or extent) of being somnific (a propensity to sleep)
n
(rare) Something that prevents or drives away sleep.
adj
(rare, humorous) Talkative in one’s sleep.
n
The act of talking in one's sleep.
adj
Synonym of somniloquous (“talking while asleep”)
v
Alternative form of somniloquize [(intransitive) To sleeptalk.]
n
The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.
n
A person who talks in his/her sleep.
v
(intransitive) To sleeptalk.
n
(uncountable) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.
n
(rare) A person in a state of somnipathy.
adj
Having a desire to sleep.
n
(dated) somnolence; drowsiness
adj
(dated) Causing literal or figurative sleepiness.
adj
Drowsy, tending to sleep.
n
The state of being in hypnotic sleep
n
a person in the state of hypnotic sleep
v
(transitive) To make sleepy; to induce a drowsy or hypnotic state in.
n
Any agent that has this effect
n
Alternative form of somnipathy [A sleep disorder.]
adj
soporific; inducing sleep
n
(Roman mythology) The god and personification of sleep; the Roman counterpart of Hypnos.
n
(obsolete) The act of putting to sleep.
n
(medicine) An unnaturally deep sleep.
v
(obsolete) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
adj
(archaic) soporific, sleep-inducing
n
(pharmacology) Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
adj
(archaic) soporific, sleep-inducing
adv
In a soporific manner.
adj
Obsolete form of soporific. [(pharmacology) Tending to induce sleep.]
adj
Alternative form of soporous [Causing sleep; sleepy.]
adj
Causing sleep; sleepy.
n
(medicine) Any drug that induces stupor or drowsiness.
adj
Inducing stupor; making drowsy; stupefacient.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a stupor.
n
(historical, rare) Abnormal, especially excessively deep, sleep.
adj
Of or in a state of consciousness below the usual waking level.
adj
(medicine) suspended animation
adj
Of a drug: having the effect of calming a person or animal, or putting them to sleep; sedating, sedative.
n
Obsolete form of trance. [(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.]
n
Obsolete form of trance. [(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.]
n
(US, humorous, hyperbolic) A period of sleepiness induced by eating Thanksgiving turkey.
adj
(pharmacology) Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.
n
(pathology) sleepwalking
n
(psychology) Winter seasonal affective disorder.
n
A drowsy, restless period of sleep caused by the withdrawal of such substances.
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