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somnambulism

/sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪzəm/

somnambulism noun: sleepwalking.

Noun

somnambulism (countable and uncountable, plural somnambulisms)

  1. sleepwalking
    • Meanwhile, towards the twelfth century, there come to be two weaknesses attached to this state of half-grown youth: by night somnambulism; in the daytime seeing of visions, trance, and the gift of tears.1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

somnambulism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

somnambulism in Hindi

sleepwalking
निद्राचार nidrācār

somnambulism in Tamil

துயில்நடை, துயினடை, தூக்கத்தில் நடக்கும் பண்பு, உறக்கத்தில் நடத்தல், உறக்கம், தூக்கம்

somnambulism in Malayalam

നിദ്രാടനം, സ്വപ്നാടനം

somnambulism in Kannada

ನಿದ್ರೆ ನಡಿಗೆ, ನಿದ್ರಾ ಸಂಚಾರ, ಒರಕುನಡಿಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
somnambulism in Arabic
اَلسَّيْر أَثْنَاءَ ٱلنَّوْم as-sayr ʔaṯnāʔa n-nawm

Synonyms of somnambulism

Forms of somnambulism

pluralsomnambulisms

Origin of somnambulism

From French somnambulisme, from New Latin somnambulus, from Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”), + -ism.

Questions about somnambulism

What does somnambulism mean?
Somnambulism means sleepwalking.
What is somnambulism in Hindi?
Somnambulism in Hindi is निद्राचार (nidrācār). See Somnambulism meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is somnambulism?
Somnambulism is a noun.
How do you pronounce somnambulism?
Somnambulism is pronounced /sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪzəm/.
What is the plural of somnambulism?
The plural of somnambulism is somnambulisms.

Words near somnambulism in the dictionary

  1. somnambulically
  2. somnambulise
  3. somnambulised
  4. somnambulises
  5. somnambulising
  6. somnambulism
  7. somnambulisms
  8. somnambulist
  9. somnambulistic
  10. somnambulistically
  11. somnambulists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somnambulism (page history and authors); somnambulism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somnambulism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somnambulism (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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