SLEEPINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleepiness mean? 

• SLEEPINESS (noun)
  The noun SLEEPINESS has 1 sense:

1. a very sleepy state

  Familiarity information: SLEEPINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEPINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very sleepy state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

drowsiness; sleepiness; somnolence

Context example:

sleepiness causes many driving accidents

Hypernyms ("sleepiness" is a kind of...):

temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sleepiness"):

oscitance; oscitancy (drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning)

Antonym:

wakefulness (a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep)

Derivation:

sleepy (ready to fall asleep)

 Context examples 

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the Epworth sleepiness scale questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire ESS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the Epworth sleepiness scale questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire ESS Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggotty seemed to swell and grow immensely large.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Clinical presentation usually includes snoring, daytime sleepiness, difficulty concentrating and fatigue.

(Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare sleep disorder characterized by prolonged sleep at night and extreme sleepiness during the day.

(Idiopathic Hypersomnolence, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to bromoethene causes dizziness, disorientation, sleepiness.

(Bromoethene, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized rating scale used to assess an individual's general level of daytime sleepiness.

(Epworth Sleepiness Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Intriguingly, the genetic basis of depressive disorder also overlaps with that for obesity and multiple measures of sleep quality, including daytime sleepiness, insomnia and tiredness.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A sleep disorder characterized by a tendency for excessive sleepiness during the day which occurs even after adequate sleep in the nighttime.

(Narcolepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

In medicine, a family of drugs used to treat depression, attention-deficit disorder (a common disorder in which children are inattentive, impulsive, and/or over-active), and narcolepsy (a sleep disorder that causes uncontrollable sleepiness).

(CNS stimulant, NCI Dictionary)