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micronapping

micronapping is the present participle and gerund of micronap.

Meaning of micronap

Verb

micronap (third-person singular simple present micronaps, present participle micronapping, simple past and past participle micronapped)

  1. (intransitive) To have a micronap; to sleep for a very short period of time, especially during the day.
    • I'd manage to put her down for her morning nap without a struggle, but as soon as I crossed the threshold of the door, she'd be wide awake, as if she'd successfully micronapped for, oh, point-ten-of-a-second and didn't need to sleep any.2019, Lauren Sams, Crazy Busy Guilty

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Noun

micronapping (uncountable)

  1. The act of taking a micronap or an extremely short sleep.

Questions about micronapping

What does micronapping mean?
Micronapping means the act of taking a micronap or an extremely short sleep.
What is micronapping the present participle and gerund of?
Micronapping is the present participle and gerund of micronap.
What part of speech is micronapping?
Micronapping is a noun.

Words near micronapping in the dictionary

  1. micromyiophilous
  2. micron
  3. micronanometer
  4. micronap
  5. micronapped
  6. micronapping
  7. micronaps
  8. micronarrative
  9. micronarratives
  10. micronation
  11. micronational

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micronapping (page history and authors); micronap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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