somniloquaciousadj.
rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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‘Talking or apt to talk in sleep’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1731).
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somˈniloquence n. = somniloquy n.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > sleep-talking
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > talking in sleep
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > sleep-talking
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1841 W. C. Dendy Philos. Mystery 306 True somniloquence is often preceded by a cataleptic state.
1841 W. C. Dendy Philos. Mystery 304.
somˈniloquent adj. talking in sleep.
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1804 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Mag. (1882) 131 123 The Ideatæ are but somniloquent Ideotæ.
somˈniloquism n. = somniloquy n.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > sleep-talking
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > talking in sleep
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > sleep-talking
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1821 Coleridge in Blackwood's Mag. (1882) 10 244 The somniloquism of the prophetesses under the coercion of the Scandinavian enchanters.
somˈniloquist n. one who speaks or talks while asleep.
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the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > one who sleep-talks
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > talking in sleep > one who
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a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 397 How often the pen becomes the tongue of a systematic dream,—a somniloquist!
1866 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 231 We may even be prompted to the action of the somnambulist, or somniloquist, without waking.
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) II. 6 The somnambulist, or rather the somniloquist.
somˈniloquize v. (intransitive) to talk in (or as in) sleep.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > have stupor or coma [verb (intransitive)] > sleep-talk
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1827 Coleridge in Blackwood's Mag. (1882) 131 119 Is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant?
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somˈniloquous adj. ‘apt to talk in sleep’ (Webster, 1847).
somˈniloquy n. the act or habit of speaking during sleep.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > sleep-talking
somniloquism1821
sleep-talking1834
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > talking in sleep
somniloquism1821
sleep-talking1834
somniloquence1841
somniloquy1847
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > sleep-talking
somniloquism1821
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1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Somniloquy, the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 757 Sleep-talking or somniloquy, and sleep-walking or somnambulism, are states in which the whole brain is not asleep.
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