Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hypnotic sleep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sleep disorder . - noun archaic Sleep from
sympathy , or produced bymesmerism or the like.
Etymologies
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Latin somnus ("sleep") + -pathy.
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A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal.
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