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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Somnambulism; sleep-walking.

Wiktionary

  1. n. sleepwalking

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. walking by a person who is asleep

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

  • “Men have employed anxious months in search of that which, in a freak of noctambulation, was hidden by their own hands.”

    Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

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Words with the same meaning

  1. somnambulism
  1. sleepwalking

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. walking
  1. sleeping
  1. walk

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