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    [Adjective]  | "som*no*lent" | \ ˈsäm-nə-lənt \


    1: of a kind likely to induce sleep

    2: inclined to or heavy with sleep : drowsy

    3: sleepy


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English sompnolent, from Anglo-French, from Latin somnolentus, from somnus sleep; akin to Old English swefn sleep, Greek hypnos;

    [Adjective]  | "somnolent" 


    1: desiring or needing sleep;


      * e.g., " ... trying to teach somnolent students on a very hot day "





    2: tending to cause sleep;


      * e.g., " ... the somnolent hum of insects in the grass "





     [ "somnolence" ]

    1: Strong desire for sleeping, very long periods of sleeping or drowsiness.

      * e.g.,  ... After the sex, Kissa was in great somnolence. 

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