SLEEPWALKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleepwalking mean? 

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

1. walking by a person who is asleep

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEPWALKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking by a person who is asleep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

noctambulation; noctambulism; sleepwalking; somnambulation; somnambulism

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

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

sleeping (the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate)

Derivation:

sleepwalk (walk in one's sleep)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include nightmare disorders, sleep terror disorders, sleepwalking, and restless leg syndrome.

(Parasomnia, NCI Thesaurus)