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Definition: Sleeplessness |
SleeplessnessNoun1. A temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sleeplessness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | One of the most common of all human ailment is insomnia. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SleeplessnessSynonym: wakefulness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sleepiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Vigilance; wakefulness; sleeplessness, restlessness; insomnia; pervigilium, insomnium; racketing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sleeplessness |
| English words defined with "sleeplessness": insomnia, insomniac, Insomnolence ♦ sleepless ♦ vigil ♦ watchful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sleeplessness": carbon disulfide poisoning. (references) |
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Health | Some agents may actually cause sleeplessness and should be used in the morning. (references) | |
Oxygen can also lessen sleeplessness, irritability, headaches, and the overproduction of red blood cells. (references) | ||
Aricept (donepezil) and Exelon (rivastigmine) are reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitors that are indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Also, some medications may help control behavioral symptoms such as sleeplessness, agitation, wandering, anxiety, and depression. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sleeplessness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sleeplessness" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 28 | 65,706 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sleeplessness | 70 |
melatonin sleeplessness | 4 |
menopause sleeplessness | 3 |
sleeplessness cause | 3 |
pregnancy sleeplessness | 2 |
sleeplessness remedy | 2 |
melatonin prevents sleeplessness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sleeplessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pagjumësi (insomnia, wakefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), رهافة (delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, slimness, tenuousness, thinness), رقة (airiness, benignity, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, neatness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, softness, suavity, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | soevnloeshed (agrypnia, insomnia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slapeloosheid (insomnia), insomnia (insomnia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | unettomuus (insomnia), unettaa (insomnia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | insomnie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlaflosigkeit (insomnia, wakefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αϋπνία (insomnia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי ש " (insomnia), "ו"י ש " (insomnia), "" (insomnia, wandering away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fáradhatatlanság (strenuousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insonnia (insomnia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不 (insomnia, wakefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふみ"しょう (insomnia, wakefulness), ふみ" (insomnia, wakefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불면증 (insomnia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchadlys (insomnia, wakefulness), neuchadley (insomnia, wakefulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeplessnessslay insónia (insomnia), insônia (insomuch, vigilance). (various references) nesomn (insomnia), insomnie (insomnia, restlessness, vigilance, wakefulness). (various references) бессоница. (various references) nesanica (insomnia, vigilance, wakefulness), besanost. (various references) insomnio (insomnia), desvelo (insomnia, wakefulness, watchfulness). (various references) uykusuzluk (insomnia, restlessness, waking), uyanıklık (alertness, being awake, guard, monkey tricks, nimbleness, shenanigan, smartness, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness), huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fermentation, fidget, hump, inquietude, qualm, restiveness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), dikkatlilik (carefulness, circumspection, deliberateness). (various references) безсоння (insomnia, vigil). (various references) sự khó ngủ, sự không ngủ được, tình trạng trằn trọc, tình trạng thao thức. (various references) anhunedd (disquiet, wakefulness), anhun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sleeplessness": sleeplessnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-l-l-n-p-s-s-s-s-s" | |
-4 letters: senseless, sleepless. | |
-5 letters: lensless. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-l-l-n-p-s-s-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: helplessnesses. | |
+2 letters: sleeplessnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 65 70 6C 65 73 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e e p l e s s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0065 0070 006C 0065 0073 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53787171827871858580718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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