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somnolence

noun as in coma

noun as in sleepiness

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Example Sentences

But abruptly it intruded around corners when least expected after scenes of rural somnolence had lulled us.

In Manhattan, every neighborhood that once sang to the creative and sexual soul has been tamped down into generic somnolence.

She is well educated, intelligent, with good memory and spirits, and has no tendency to depression or somnolence.

How long had he been subjected to this delicious somnolence, without name in our language?

If we must go out at unusual hours to get it, we shall go, in spite of after-dinner nap or evening somnolence.

But after all there must be some check to the inveterate tendency to somnolence in the public offices.

But Sir Percy seemed, whenever his wife's name was mentioned, to lapse into irresistible somnolence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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