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Definition of Noctambulism
1. Noun. Walking by a person who is asleep.
Generic synonyms: Walk, Walking, Sleeping
Derivative terms: Noctambulist, Sleepwalk, Somnambulate, Somnambulist
Definition of Noctambulism
1. n. Somnambulism.
Definition of Noctambulism
1. Noun. sleepwalking ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Noctambulism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Noctambulism
Literary usage of Noctambulism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1869)
"noctambulism BY some accounts, Theseus met with his death through ... Serve him
right, will be the verdict of those to whom every species of noctambulism, ..."
2. The Mental State of Hystericals: A Study of Mental Stigmata and Mental Accidents by Pierre Janet (1901)
"In noctambulism, she lost the remembrance of the magnetic sleep, ... In the
nervous crises she lost the recollection of noctambulism; finally, when awake, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"... may begin in an attack of simple noctambulism, consecutive to violent moral
preoccupation, or in childhood in a cataleptic crisis resulting from worms, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"SOMNAMBULISM (sleep-walking, al sometimes called noctambulism), pathologica'
considered, is caused by persistent, strong, unconscious wishes of the ..."
5. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"... to twilight states, and to noctambulism. He finds that the condition passes
through three fairly well defined stages: first, one of exaltation of the ..."
6. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"But supposing that this somnambulist í your noctambulism. You believe yourself,
both in the one and the other occupation, to have done only what you ..."
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