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Definition of Somnambulation
1. Noun. Walking by a person who is asleep.
Generic synonyms: Walk, Walking, Sleeping
Derivative terms: Noctambulist, Sleepwalk, Somnambulate, Somnambulist
Definition of Somnambulation
1. n. The act of walking in sleep.
Definition of Somnambulation
1. Noun. The phenomenon of sleepwalking. ¹
2. Noun. An instance of sleepwalking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Somnambulation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somnambulation
Literary usage of Somnambulation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"Sleepwalkers, after they have awakened from the slumbers which ushered in and
continued after somnambulation, have sometimes remembered the circumstances or ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"Mrs. Pritchard, in Lady Mac- beth's somnambulation, had, invariably, kept the
taper in her hand. Mrs. Siddons, contrary to the urgent request of Sheridan, ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"In the partial and much more commonly encountered seizures, attacks of ecstasy,
of sleep, and of somnambulation are very distinctive. ..."
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