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somnambulism
[som-nam-byuh-liz-uhm, suhm-]
somnambulism
/ ɒˈæʊˌɪə /
noun
Also called: noctambulism.a condition that is characterized by walking while asleep or in a hypnotic trance
Other Word Forms
- somnambulist noun
- dzˌԲˈپ adjective
- dzˈԲܱ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of somnambulism1
Example Sentences
But we must be careful not to confuse this disorder with somnambulism.
Or are they symptoms of either sleep paralysis — the mind awake, but the body asleep — or its converse: somnambulism, or sleepwalking?
By the last half-hour, I had plunged into a state of political somnambulism.
As a realist narrator, he reports first-hand the nightmare of the surreal somnambulism outbreak.
This brutal satirical novel takes place on a single night, when a plague of somnambulism unleashes a host of suppressed emotions among the inhabitants of a Chinese village.
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