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somnolence
/ˈsɑm.nə.ləns/
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What does somnolence mean?
noun
- A state of drowsiness or sleepiness.
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/ˈsɑm.nə.ləns/
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The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
Some constitutions plunge the citizens into a lethargic somnolence, and others rouse them to feverish excitement.
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This somnolence did I disturb when I taught that NO ONE YET KNOWETH what is good and bad:—unless it be the creating one!
They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the flesh of somnolence.
Heister speaks of birth during a convulsive somnolence, and Osiander of a case during sleep.