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单词 somnambulism
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Definition of somnambulism in English:

somnambulism

nounsɒmˈnambjʊlɪz(ə)msɑmˈnæmbjəˌlɪzəm
mass noun
  • 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).
    • 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.

Derivatives

  • somnambulant

  • adjectivesɒmˈnambjʊləntsɑmˈnæmbjələnt
    • Resembling or characteristic of a sleepwalker; sluggish.

      a somnambulant stroll
      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.
  • somnambulantly

  • 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.
  • somnambulist

  • 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.
  • somnambulistic

  • 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.
  • somnambulistically

  • 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.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French somnambulisme, from Latin somnus 'sleep' + ambulare 'to walk'.

Definition of somnambulism in US English:

somnambulism

nounsämˈnambyəˌlizəmsɑmˈnæmbjəˌlɪzəm
  • 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.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French somnambulisme, from Latin somnus ‘sleep’ + ambulare ‘to walk’.

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