Definition of Somnambulation

1. Noun. Walking by a person who is asleep.


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

sommerset
sommersets
sommonour
sommonours
somnabulate
somnabulated
somnabulates
somnabulating
somnambulance
somnambulant
somnambular
somnambulate
somnambulated
somnambulates
somnambulating
somnambulation (current term)
somnambulations
somnambulator
somnambulators
somnambulatory
somnambule
somnambules
somnambulic
somnambulic epilepsy
somnambulism
somnambulisms
somnambulist
somnambulistic
somnambulistic trance
somnambulistically

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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