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sleepiness

sleepiness noun: the property of being sleepy.

Noun

sleepiness (usually uncountable, plural sleepinesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being sleepy.

sleepiness meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

sleepiness in Tamil

property of being sleepy
அசதி acati, தூக்கம் tūkkam, மயக்கம் mayakkam

sleepiness in Bengali

তন্দ্রাচ্ছন্নতা, ঘুমের ভাব

sleepiness in Malayalam

drowsiness, languor, tiredness
ഉറക്കം, മയക്കം, മത്തത, മാൺപ്, മാൻ, സുപ്തി

sleepiness in Kannada

ತೂಕಡಿಕೆ, ತಂದ್ರೆ
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sleepiness in Sanskrit
तन्द्रा tandrā, स्वप्न svápna
sleepiness in Arabic
نُعَاس nuʕās, سِنَة sina
sleepiness in Persian
خوابآلودی xâb-âludi
sleepiness in Thai
ความง่วง kwaam-ngûuang

Forms of sleepiness

pluralsleepinesses

Origin of sleepiness

From sleepy + -ness.

Questions about sleepiness

What does sleepiness mean?
Sleepiness means the property of being sleepy.
What is sleepiness in Tamil?
Sleepiness in Tamil is அசதி (acati), தூக்கம் (tūkkam), மயக்கம் (mayakkam). See Sleepiness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sleepiness?
Sleepiness is a noun.
What is the plural of sleepiness?
The plural of sleepiness is sleepinesses.

Words near sleepiness in the dictionary

  1. sleepified
  2. sleepifies
  3. sleepify
  4. sleepifying
  5. sleepily
  6. sleepiness
  7. sleepinesses
  8. sleeping
  9. sleeping a wink
  10. sleeping around
  11. sleeping at the switch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepiness (page history and authors); sleepiness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleepiness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sleepiness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तन्द्रा (Sanskrit) (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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