单词 | sleepiness |
释义 | sleepinessn. 1. The state of being sleepy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep; sluggishness, indolence. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1580 |
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