Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of talking in sleep; specifically, talking in the somnambulistic sleep.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. uttering speech while asleep
Etymologies
- somni- + Latin loquī, to speak; see soliloquy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She plots Six's graphs and statistics while playing Seven's sleep video in double time, watching the patterns and listening to him do his somniloquy in a high-pitched Chipmunk voice.”
“In any case, it turned out there was no room for sleepwalking in the book, because I got so interested in narcolepsy and insomnia and sleeptalking, or somniloquy.”
“How long are we going to wait out here?" complained Nawin in his somniloquy.”
“Apparently, talking in one's sleep is a form of parasomnia termed somniloquy.”
“The study distinguished the dream-enacting behavior of speaking out loud some of the words of a dream about talking from somniloquy (sleep talking), which was defined as speaking or making sounds during sleep without clear recall of an accompanying dream.”
“Almost 61 percent of subjects in group three reported experiencing somniloquy at least "rarely" in the last year, and 40.9 percent reported somnambulism.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘somniloquy’.
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megsarah's Words
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Bedaphors
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Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.
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Tweets
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sonofgroucho I agree, choice piece of text! Nov 5, 2007
slumry I had to look this one up. At first blush, I thought it must be a very boring soliloquy. Good word. I think I will pilfer it. Jun 14, 2007