Drowsiness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  drowsiness \drow"si*ness\, n.
     State of being drowsy. --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  drowsiness
       n : a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving
           accidents" [syn: {sleepiness}, {somnolence}] [ant: {wakefulness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "drowsiness":
     acedia, apathy, boredom, doziness, dullness, enervation, ennui,
     fatigue, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference, jadedness,
     lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor,
     languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy,
     lifelessness, listlessness, oscitancy, oscitation, pandiculation,
     passivity, phlegm, satedness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness,
     slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, somnolency, stretching,
     stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
     torpor, weariness, world-weariness, yawning