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Sleeping

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Broader term 7

Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Ease 76% connected

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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Relaxation 76% connected

The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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Repose 76% connected

To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Sleep 76% connected

imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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Slumber 76% connected

To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

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Doze 76% connected

To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.

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Drowse 76% connected

To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.

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Nap 76% connected

To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.

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Noctambulation 76% connected

Somnambulism; walking in sleep.

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Sleepwalking 76% connected

Walking in one's sleep.

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Snooze 76% connected

A short sleep; a nap.

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Somnambulation 76% connected

The act of walking in sleep.

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Somnambulism 76% connected

A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which so…

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Somniloquism 76% connected

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.

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Somniloquy 76% connected

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.

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Vegetation 76% connected

The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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Component part 2

Dream 70% connected

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

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Dreaming 70% connected

of Dream

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Synonym 4

Dormancy 92% connected

The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dormant 92% connected

Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dorma…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Quiescence 92% connected

Alt. of Quiescency

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Quiescency 92% connected

The state or quality of being quiescent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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