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drowsiness

noun as in sleepiness

noun as in sluggishness

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For me, it took the Sleeprate to show that daytime stress was the likely culprit of morning drowsiness.

Research has shown that nothing will correct drowsiness while driving except sleep.

On one of these occasions, he washed his face in the cooling waters, explaining that he did this to overcome drowsiness.

That vast perpetual movement ceases; a sort of drowsiness and languor overspreads it; and it seems weary and about to rest.

Towards morning a drowsiness crept over me, and I had the greatest difficulty in maintaining my perilous position.

And yet we must go on in one direction or the other or else succumb to sheer lassitude and overpowering drowsiness.

This isn't so bad, he thought, and there was something like surprise through the drowsiness.

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On this page you'll find 474 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drowsiness, such as: apathy, coma, disinterest, disregard, dullness, and heedlessness.

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

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