单词 | sleeplessness |
释义 | sleeplessnessn. The state of being sleepless; esp. inability to sleep, insomnia. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > wakefulness or sleeplessness > specific inability to sleep watchfulness1596 insomnia1623 sleeplessness1646 vigilancy1657 vigily1665 vigilia1728 vigilance1749 insomnolence1822 insomnolencya1843 1646 Bp. J. Hall Balme of Gilead 282 In three yeares he [sc. Mæcenas] slept not..an hour; which..Lipsius thinks good to mitigate with a favourable construction, as conceiving an impossibility of an absolute sleeplesenesse. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. vi. 186 Convulsing with strange pangs the whole sick Body, as in such sleeplessness and sickness, the ear will do. 1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing vii. 43 Sleeplessness in the early night is from excitement generally. 1886 Manch. Examiner 8 Feb. 5/4 A correspondent..provides a new remedy for sleeplessness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1646 |
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