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[syn: sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
drowsiness \drow"si*ness\, n.
State of being drowsy. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
drowsiness
n 1: a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving
accidents" [syn: sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence]
[ant: sleeplessness, wakefulness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "drowsiness":
acedia, apathy, boredom, doziness, dullness, enervation, ennui,
fatigue, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference, jadedness,
lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor,
languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy,
lifelessness, listlessness, oscitancy, oscitation, pandiculation,
passivity, phlegm, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness,
slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, somnolency, stretching,
stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
torpor, weariness, world-weariness, yawning