Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Somnambulism; sleep-walking.
Wiktionary
- n. sleepwalking
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep.
WordNet 3.0
- n. walking by a person who is asleep
Etymologies
- Latin nox, noctis, night + ambulare to walk: compare French noctambulation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Somnambulism, or, as it has been called, noctambulation, is a curious phase of nocturnal cerebration analogous to the hypnotic state, or double consciousness occasionally observed in epileptics.”
“Men have employed anxious months in search of that which, in a freak of noctambulation, was hidden by their own hands.”
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Interesting words
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slumpy's list
cannibulimia, cannibulimia, nakhur, lolo'uila, canescent, ensnorkelled, liquefaction, noctambulation, scrimshaw
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