Definitions
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- noun The characteristic of being most active and alert during the
evening ; being anight owl .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was an unmistakable dressed-up eveningness about them both.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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Sleep researchers at Stanford University found that people with one genotype had an increased preference for eveningness, while the other genotype had an increased preference for morningness.
doggdot.us 2008
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(verified by sleep logs and wrist actigraphy for at least one week before study entry); absence of extreme morningness or extreme eveningness, as assessed by questionnaire
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Namni Goel et al. 2009
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Read on site A self-assessment questionnaire to determine morningness-eveningness in human circadian rhythms ".
We Blog A Lot 2008
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