Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Somnambulism; sleep-walking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sleepwalking
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun walking by a person who is asleep
Etymologies
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Latin nox, noctis, night + ambulare to walk: compare French noctambulation.
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Examples
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Somnambulism, or, as it has been called, noctambulation, is a curious phase of nocturnal cerebration analogous to the hypnotic state, or double consciousness occasionally observed in epileptics.
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Somnambulism, or, as it has been called, noctambulation, is a curious phase of nocturnal cerebration analogous to the hypnotic state, or double consciousness occasionally observed in epileptics.
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Men have employed anxious months in search of that which, in a freak of noctambulation, was hidden by their own hands.
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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