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somno

somno is the clipping of somnophilia.

Meaning of somnophilia

Noun

somnophilia (uncountable)

  1. A paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious.
    • In contrast, Calef and Weinshel (1972) suggested that somnophilia may be a neurotic equivalent of necrophilia.2008, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual deviance: theory, assessment, and treatment, page 401
  2. Any sex act during which one of the partners is asleep or close to falling asleep.
    Synonyms:
    somno

Questions about somno

What is somno the clipping of?
Somno is the clipping of somnophilia.

Words near somno in the dictionary

  1. somniphobe
  2. somniphobes
  3. somniphobia
  4. somniphobic
  5. somnivolent
  6. somno
  7. somno-
  8. somnogenic
  9. somnogenicity
  10. somnogram
  11. somnograms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somno (page history and authors); somnophilia (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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