| 单词 |
sleepiness |
| 释义 |
sleepiness|ˈsliːpɪnɪs|
[f. as sleepily adv. + -ness.]
1. The state of being sleepy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep; sluggishness, indolence.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Endormissement, sleepinesse, sluggishnesse. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. Wks. 1724 II. 680 Presenting a heavy sleepiness in her countenance. 1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. 91 There is a sleepiness or dulness the next day in many that takes it. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. i. xliii. 97 Sleepiness shews Cold and Moisture of the Brain. 1773Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 147 The symptom of her sleepiness is very alarming. 1860Senior Conversat. (1880) I. 112, I have pitied poor little things of four or five years old dying from sleepiness, but kept up till nine. 1874L. Stephen Hours Libr. (1892) II. vii. 233 [He] is mentally contrasting the sleepiness of the bishops with the virtues of Newton or Whitefield.
2. Numbness; absence of sensation. rare—0.
1647Hexham i, Sleepinesse or benummednesse of membres, slaperigheyt der leden.
3. Of cream: (see sleepy a. 1 c, quot. 1885).
1885J. Long Brit. Dairy-Farm. 85 What other change of the cream is connected with the ‘sleepiness’ he has not found out. |
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