sleepiness
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- noun
- /ˈsliːpɪnəs/
:
somnolencia
- Moreover, sleep loss resulted in daytime sleepiness that was also correlated with poor academic performance.
- daytime sleepiness
- excessive sleepiness
- physiological sleepiness
Another potent lever for adjusting your sleepiness and wakefulness is caffeine.
- Another potent lever for adjusting your sleepiness and wakefulness is caffeine.
- And as we said, when we sleep, we remove that sleepiness.
- And it creates the feeling of sleepiness independent of time of day or night.
- Are you getting more predictable shifts in alertness and sleepiness?
- Photo of frozen mountain so boring my eyes were dim with sleepiness and the strain of reading in the dark.
- If you're studying calculus and you're trying to absorb this information and you get overwhelmed with a sense of sleepiness, listen to your body.
- You'll notice extreme daytime sleepiness to the point where some patients have car accidents from falling asleep while driving.
- Caffeine, if it's working on those same receptors, should increase your sleepiness.
Examples
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As we drove away from Granville and the darkness fell around us, our sleepiness returned.
Fiction book (1990) -
You'll notice extreme daytime sleepiness to the point where some patients have car accidents from falling asleep while driving.
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I almost had an accident last night from, from, uh, sleepiness... ...so I decided to pull over.
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I almost had an accident last night from sleepiness, - so I decided to pull over.
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And it creates the feeling of sleepiness independent of time of day or night.
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I'm half blind with sleepiness.
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Some studies showed the adverse effects of insufficient sleep and sleepiness on school functioning.
Academic text (2012) -
In addition, most patients have excessive daytime sleepiness at this RDI level.
Academic text (1999) -
In school the next day, she was dizzy with sleepiness; her eyelids closed relentlessly.
Fiction book (1990) -
After staying up late studying, I felt an overwhelming sense of sleepiness during my morning lectures.
Synonyms
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1.8
A feeling of being very sleepy and wanting to sleep
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9.3
A strong feeling of tiredness that makes you want to sleep
A strong feeling of sleepiness that makes you want to nap
Antonyms
How Sleepy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sleepiness comes from the simple word sleep plus the ending -ness, which turns a verb or adjective into a state or condition. So sleepiness means the feeling of being 'ready to sleep' or 'wanting to close your eyes', like after a long day.