sleepness
sleepness noun: the state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
Noun
sleepness (plural sleepnesses)
- The state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
- [...] Thy mouth or teeth, or thy hand, And notest how my soul devours With a sleepness like to trance [...]1993, Fernando Pessoa, Maria Teresa Rita Lopes, Pessoa inédito
- " [...] thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleepness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit" [...]2004, Chris A. M. Hermans, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Hermeneutics And Empirical Research In Practical Theology
Examples of sleepness in a sentence
- The best style of taking a rest is the sleepness.2008, Chinh Van Chinh Van Pham, Fasting And Meditation To Live Happily:
- That's because Hitler would stay up all night talking to them until sleepness over took him.2012, Dahn A. Batchelor, Whistling in the Face of Robbers:
Forms of sleepness
| plural | sleepnesses |
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Origin of sleepness
From sleep + -ness.
Questions about sleepness
- What does sleepness mean?
- Sleepness means the state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
- How do you use sleepness in a sentence?
- The best style of taking a rest is the sleepness.
- What part of speech is sleepness?
- Sleepness is a noun.
- What is the plural of sleepness?
- The plural of sleepness is sleepnesses.
Words near sleepness in the dictionary
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