单词 | dreamlessness |
释义 | dreamlessnessn. The quality, condition, or state of being dreamless; lack of dreams. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > deep or sound dreamlessness1848 1848 C. W. Webber Adventures Camanche Country x. 99 I felt weary..as if I could sink for ever upon the placid bosom of our mother earth and sleep a sweet sleep of dreamlessness. 1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand xiii. 218 Something that had mingled with sleep, but was previous to her deep dreamlessness. 1928 J. W. Vandercook Black Majesty i. 2 The black peasants of Haiti have slipped ever deeper into stupor and dirt and dreamlessness. 2010 T. Dekker & E. Healy Burn xxx.158 The one mercy of sleeplessness was dreamlessness. She'd be spared the recurring nightmares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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