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[syn: sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Somnolence \Som"no*lence\, Somnolency \Som"no*len*cy\, n. [L.
somnolentia: cf. F. somnolence.]
Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
somnolence
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 "somnolence":
acedia, apathy, boredom, doziness, drowsiness, 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, somnolency, stretching,
stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
torpor, weariness, world-weariness, yawning