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somnambulism
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. sleepwalking
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking , somnambulation , noctambulism , noctambulation ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1786, "walking in one's sleep or under hypnosis," from French somnambulisme , from Modern Latin somnambulus "sleepwalker," from Latin somnus "sleep" (see Somnus ) + ambulare "to walk" (see amble (v.)).\n \nOriginally brought into use during the excitement ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somnambulism \Som*nam"bu*lism\, n. [Cf. F. somnambulisme. See Somnambulation .] A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary ...
Usage examples of somnambulism.
It is probably true, as Von Blon said, that the two books do not deal with actual hysterical paralysis and somnambulism, but they no doubt contain references to these types of paralysis.
She did not even know what thoughts were hidden in the depths of her brain, and she knew absolutely nothing of this forced somnambulism with which she was threatened.
Fahnestock speaks of the case of a woman who was delivered of a son while in a state of artificial somnambulism, without pain to herself or injury to the child.
Both Hippocrates and Aristotle discuss somnambulism, and it is said that the physician Galen was a victim of this habit.
The marvelous manifestations of somnambulism are still among the more surprising phenomena with which science has to deal.
A remarkable instance of somnambulism was the case of a lad of sixteen and a half years who, in an attack of somnambulism, went to the stable, saddled his horse, asked for his whip, and disputed with the toll-keeper about his fare, and when he awoke had no recollection whatever of his acts, having been altogether an hour in his trance.
Archbishop of Bordeaux attests the case of a young ecclesiastic who was in the habit of getting up during the night in a state of somnambulism, taking pen, ink, and paper, and composing and writing sermons.
Mesnet relates some interesting experiments made upon a French sergeant in a condition of somnambulism, demonstrating the excitation of ideas in the mind through the sense of touch in the extremities.
The worst phase of his somnambulism was the impending fears and terrible visions to which he was subjected.
According to a prominent New York paper, one of the most singular and at the same time sad cases of somnambulism occurred a few years ago near Bakersville, N.
A very common occurrence aroused her from the somnambulism of suffering in which she had wandered for two hours.
Mechanically he walked about his room without paying attention to what he was doing, as if he were in a state of somnambulism, and it astonished him, because he never felt weariness of mind any more than of body, no matter how little he had slept, nor how hard he had worked.
At noon on Shatterday, as if by mass somnambulism, the entire village gathered in the crater by the swan-neck of fire.