as in sleepiness
the quality or state of desiring or needing sleep somnolence is likely to be the most typical and telling reaction to this novel

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Recent Examples on the Web If successful, Murray wants the Senate to awake from its somnolence the past few months and years, having a free-flowing debate with lots of amendments considered. Paul Kane, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023 More little dramas are unfolding across South Korean boardrooms as activist investors become more assertive after a long period of somnolence. Jacky Wong, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023 Carolyn Kuan doesn’t do somnolence. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Nov. 2022 For me, that response is instantaneous somnolence. New York Times, 20 July 2022 See all Example Sentences for somnolence 

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“Somnolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somnolence. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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