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单词 sleepiness
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sleepinessn.

/ˈsliːpɪnɪs/
Etymology: Formed as sleepily adv. + -ness suffix.
1. The state of being sleepy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep; sluggishness, indolence.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun]
somnolencec1386
sleepingness1398
slumberness1495
sleepiness1580
soporiferousness1598
somnolency1623
dozedness1671
doziness1679
swother?c1730
sleepfulness1818
somnolescence1831
sleepy-headiness1841
slumberousness1842
nappishness1851
sleepy-headedness1884
snooziness1887
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Endormissement, sleepinesse, sluggishnesse.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii1v Presenting a heauie sleepines in her countenance.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 91 There is a sleepiness or dulness the next day in many that takes it.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. xliii. 97 Sleepiness shews Cold and Moisture of the Brain.
1773 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 147 The symptom of her sleepiness is very alarming.
1860 Senior Conversat. (1880) I. 112 I have pitied poor little things of four or five years old dying from sleepiness, but kept up till nine.
1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 127 [He] is mentally contrasting the sleepiness of the bishops with the virtues of Newton or Whitefield.
2. Numbness; absence of sensation. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun]
unfeelingness1398
insensibility?1510
senselessness1577
indolency1603
stupidity1603
unfeeling1603
torpidity1614
torpor1626
sleepiness1647
indolence1656
insensibleness1656
narcosis1671
torpidnessa1676
torpitude1713
anaesthesia1721
deadness1764
insentience1862
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Sleepinesse or benummednesse of membres, slaperigheyt der leden.
3. Of cream: (see sleepy adj. 1c).
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > cream > much frothiness in
sleepiness1885
1885 J. Long Brit. Dairy-farming 85 What other change of the cream is connected with the ‘sleepiness’ he has not found out.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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