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单词 sleeplessness
释义 ˈsleeplessness
[f. prec.]
The state of being sleepless; esp. inability to sleep, insomnia.
1646Bp. Hall Balm of Gilead (1652) 221 In three years he [Mæcenas] slept not..an hour; which..Lipsius thinks good to mitigate with a favourable construction, as conceiving an impossibility of an absolute sleeplessenesse.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. vi, Convulsing with strange pangs the whole sick Body, as in such sleeplessness and sickness the ear will do!1861F. Nightingale Notes Nursing (ed. 2) 53 Sleeplessness in the early night is from excitement generally.1886Manch. Exam. 8 Feb. 5/4 A correspondent..provides a new remedy for sleeplessness.
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