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Definition of somnambulism in English: somnambulismnounsɒmˈnambjʊlɪz(ə)msɑmˈnæmbjəˌlɪzəm mass nounSleepwalking. 梦游 she would have liked to wake up from her somnambulism to find herself back in bed Example sentencesExamples - Further information included the fact that the patient had no history of somnambulism (sleep walking).
- In somnambulism and somniloquy, a child sits up in bed with eyes open but is ‘unseeing.’
- They are similar to other arousal disorders that occur during deep sleep, such as somnambulism and confusional arousals.
- At the same time, there are recent texts in which a representation of somnambulism seems fused with the image of vertical slumber.
- Other names for it are walking during sleep and somnambulism.
Derivativesadjectivesɒmˈnambjʊləntsɑmˈnæmbjələnt Resembling or characteristic of a sleepwalker; sluggish. Example sentencesExamples - his somnambulant performance
- the plot plods along at a somnambulant pace
- As I was trolling the Internet the other night, (an addictive past-time especially for somnambulant sleuths like me), I happened upon the ‘ultimate destination for women's fiction’.
- Contemporary with early Surrealism, the people in Countries of the World remind Stezaker of the somnambulant anonymous types in paintings by de Chirico, Delvaux and Magritte.
- The Sonatina is in nine short sections, alternately eerie, fantastical, bleary, somnambulant, focussing sharply or softly as the case may be upon the tone row they all derive from.
adverbsɒmˈnambjʊl(ə)ntlisɑmˈnæmbjələn(t)li Obese, and buzzing somnambulantly around a light bulb, they're easy to swat. Example sentencesExamples - After watching the Pope's funeral, I staggered somnambulantly towards the Commons in search of breakfast.
- Songs like ‘Vesuvius’ and ‘Virginia’ amble along somnambulantly, and ‘Forthright’ conjures a Gothic insomnia as Chesnutt wanders a lonely house contemplating death and hominy.
nounsɒmˈnambjʊlɪstsɑmˈnæmbjələst Was the somnambulist an ‘automaton’ or what some French psychologists called an automate conscient? Example sentencesExamples - It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep.
- Juries have reason to be skeptical, but there is plenty of scientific evidence to suggest that sleepwalkers, or somnambulists, can engage in complex behavior.
- The intense bitterness eventually gave way to a melancholic paralysis in which all, save the children, became walking-wounded somnambulists lingering in dusty hallways awaiting blessed bedtime.
- Before and beyond they are sleeping, somnambulists - and, in fact, the physical appearance of Dix both in the first and last scene suggests this state.
adjectivesɒmnambjʊˈlɪstɪksɑmˌnæmbjəˈlɪstɪk While the British state, however reluctantly, was substantially increasing its involvement in Northern Ireland, the Irish government's approach was somnambulistic. Example sentencesExamples - Fortunately the highlights of the trip outweigh the overly somnambulistic detours, proving that it's the journey, not the destination that matters most.
- Their debut album, The Acrobat, catches night-bruised piano-pop songs meandering into weary and somnambulistic discord.
- The central character, a Woman who works in a convenience store (played with somnambulistic perfection by Maureen Gammelseter) is the the film's central focus.
- Neither cinema's guileful cultural artifacts nor the somnambulistic, moribund jargon that unpacks them know anything about that.
adverbsɒmnambjʊˈlɪstɪk(ə)li In one painting, for example, a stout Leger-like woman, rigid and flat in form and stultified in motion, wanders somnambulistically away from a voluptuously puffed red love seat. Example sentencesExamples - In the Resurrection, set in Piero's home town of Sansepolcro, Christ emerges somnambulistically from a sarcophagus against which the sleeping guards lie - a strange and disturbing image.
- An outraged crowd readies to raze the community, but once again they do so without passion, somnambulistically moving along, tending over the duties handed to them by chance.
- You have to feel the heavyweight, soft, supple, sensual cottons and somnambulistically draping fabrics.
- Characters somnambulistically move in and out of frames, ghosts of feeling and thinking human beings.
OriginLate 18th century: from French somnambulisme, from Latin somnus 'sleep' + ambulare 'to walk'. Definition of somnambulism in US English: somnambulismnounsämˈnambyəˌlizəmsɑmˈnæmbjəˌlɪzəm Sleepwalking. 梦游 she would have liked to wake up from her somnambulism to find herself back in bed Example sentencesExamples - Further information included the fact that the patient had no history of somnambulism (sleep walking).
- At the same time, there are recent texts in which a representation of somnambulism seems fused with the image of vertical slumber.
- In somnambulism and somniloquy, a child sits up in bed with eyes open but is ‘unseeing.’
- Other names for it are walking during sleep and somnambulism.
- They are similar to other arousal disorders that occur during deep sleep, such as somnambulism and confusional arousals.
OriginLate 18th century: from French somnambulisme, from Latin somnus ‘sleep’ + ambulare ‘to walk’. |