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sleepness en · NOUN

Etymology

From sleep + -ness.

Meanings

1. The state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
   • [...] Thy mouth or teeth, or thy hand, And notest how my soul devours With a sleepness like to trance [...] 1993, Fernando Pessoa, Maria Teresa Rita Lopes, Pessoa inédito:
   • [...] And to hard labor and weariness, in many sleepnesses, in famine and thirst, in many fastings, in cold and nakedness, 28 Besides of which (matters) outside, the standing on of me what (is) according to the day, the care of all the churches. 2005, Alvin Cordes, The Translators New Testament:
   • That's because Hitler would stay up all night talking to them until sleepness over took him. They certainly didn't let sleepness overtake them while Hitler was talking. 2012, Dahn A. Batchelor, Whistling in the Face of Robbers:
   • " [...] thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleepness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit" [...] 2004, Chris A. M. Hermans, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Hermeneutics And Empirical Research In Practical Theology:
   • The best style of taking a rest is the sleepness. A good, lasting sleepness helps the body quickly recover the energy that is lost. 2008, Chinh Van Chinh Van Pham, Fasting And Meditation To Live Happily:

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