Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Somnambulism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Somnambulism.
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- noun
sleepwalking
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun walking by a person who is asleep
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sleep walking is also known as noctambulism or somnambulism.
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And John Culmer Bell looks at the nature of electromagnetic radiation as a shaper of 19th - and 20th - century urban form, provocatively questioning whether sacrificing the pleasures of ‘noctambulism’ simply on environmental grounds is actually a good thing.
Ballardian » A Near Future: Nic Clear’s Tribute to JG Ballard 2009
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Such is precisely what came to pass in your noctambulism.
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Often and often since then, when noctambulism was the fashion, have we, future great men, spent whole nights there, elbows on table, amidst tobacco smoke and literary talk.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885
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I had spent an abominable night in Rouen in a small hotel near the station where a procession of nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and leaving with a crashing and whistling and an escape of steam and smoke which, after a week's noctambulism in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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I had spent an abominable night in Rouen in a small hotel near the station where a procession of nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and leaving with a crashing and whistling and an escape of steam and smoke which, after a week's noctambulism in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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I had spent an abominable night in Rouen in a small hotel near the station where a procession of nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and leaving with a crashing and whistling and an escape of steam and smoke which, after a week's noctambulism in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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I had spent an abominable night in Rouen in a small hotel near the station where a procession of nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and leaving with a crashing and whistling and an escape of steam and smoke which, after a week's noctambulism in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Sleepwalking, also called somnambulism or noctambulism is a sleep disorder where a person will engage in movements, actions and routines that they would normally do while they're awake.
LearnHub Activities 2009
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Sleepwalking, also called somnambulism or noctambulism is a sleep disorder where a person will engage in movements, actions and routines that they would normally do while they're awake.
LearnHub Activities 2009
RevBrently commented on the word noctambulism
From page 7 of Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time to Keep Silence":
I had spent an abominable night in Rouen...where a procession of
nightmares had been punctuated by the noise of trains arriving and
leaving...which, after a week's <b>noctambulism</b> in Paris, turned my night into a period of acute and apparently interminable agony.
January 21, 2014