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Meanings of somnambulism in English

Portuguese
sonambulismo
Catalan
noctambulisme
Spanish
sonambulismo
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Walking by a person who is asleep.

        sonambulismo
        Synonyms
        Examples for "sleepwalking"
        Examples for "sleepwalking"
        1
        The previous tenant left that door locked-apparentlyhe was afraid of sleepwalking.
        Sympathy for the devil
        2
        After its Snooker Loopy peak years, the sport is sleepwalking towards oblivion.
        The Guardian
        3
        They were sleepwalking at a time when everyone else was wide awake.
        The Irish Times
        4
        A sort of waking nightmare in which sleepwalking had played a part?
        The talisman
        5
        The opposition Labour Party said Britain risked sleepwalking towards EU exit.
        Reuters
        1
        This with her always followed somnambulation.
        David Elginbrod
        1
        Men have employed anxious months in search of that which, in a freak of noctambulation, was hidden by their own hands.
        Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
        Usage of somnambulism in English
        1
        The eyes of many men threw her into the state of somnambulism.
        Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
        2
        They accept the established, living in a sort of an intellectual somnambulism.
        The Shadow of the Cathedral
        3
        But she had not for some time discovered any signs of somnambulism.
        David Elginbrod
        4
        She decided that her best course was to go on shamming somnambulism.
        A Patriotic Schoolgirl
        5
        There is also a lighter phase than somnambulism, that is called fascination.
        Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism / H...
        6
        He was the one who first called attention to your somnambulism, wasn't he?
        Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
        7
        He had reached that stage which may be called the somnambulism of fear.
        Sant' Ilario
        8
        The dead are dead, and somnambulism is more mysterious than death.
        The Lake
        9
        Now to illustrate the phenomena of trance half-waking, by describing somnambulism.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
        10
        That night-itwas after the funeral-histendency to somnambulism manifested itself.
        Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
        11
        Since his display of rhetoric at luncheon all was downright somnambulism.
        Born in Exile
        12
        It would seem, besides, that she was naturally disposed to somnambulism.
        David Elginbrod
        13
        You talked quite rationally in your sleep, which is a new development in somnambulism.
        In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
        14
        Meanwhile he would try to keep track of his somnambulism.
        The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
        15
        It is claimed by some that somnambulism is one phase of the hypnotic condition.
        The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Islands
        16
        The proceeding suddenly appeared to me as ridiculous, tinged with the weirdness of somnambulism.
        A Far Country — Volume 3
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        Translations for somnambulism
        Portuguese
        sonambulismo
        Somnambulism through the time
        Somnambulism across language varieties
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