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sleepiphany

/slɪˈpɪf.ə.ni/

sleepiphany noun: an illuminating realization or discovery revealed in a dream or during sleep.

Noun

sleepiphany

  1. An illuminating realization or discovery revealed in a dream or during sleep.
    • Von den Vorschlägen rest-creational activity, ennightenment, indreamuity, daybreakthrough, temporeverie, dozepiphany, sleeplution, somnolution, hypknowsis, hypnosynthesis, sleepiphany, twilightenment und einigen weiteren bevorzuge ich ennightenment und dozepiphany.2013 December 4, Kurt Bracharz, Für reife Leser, Haymon Verlag, →ISBN
    • If nothing else, this list might explain why I shun webinars and go to bed every night hoping for a sleepiphany. And the people I know on Twitter are my friends. Don’t even think about calling them tweeple.2015 May 29, Alison Crutchley, “Phablets and fauxhawks: the linguistic secrets of a good blended word”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022

Origin of sleepiphany

Blend of sleep + epiphany.

Questions about sleepiphany

What does sleepiphany mean?
Sleepiphany means an illuminating realization or discovery revealed in a dream or during sleep.
What part of speech is sleepiphany?
Sleepiphany is a noun.
How do you pronounce sleepiphany?
Sleepiphany is pronounced /slɪˈpɪf.ə.ni/.

Words near sleepiphany in the dictionary

  1. sleeping with one's fathers
  2. sleeping with the fishes
  3. sleepingly
  4. sleepings
  5. sleepingwear
  6. sleepiphany
  7. sleepish
  8. sleepless
  9. sleeplessly
  10. sleeplessness
  11. sleeplessnesses

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