somniloquy
IPA: sˈɑmnˈɪɫʌkwi
noun
- (uncountable) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.
- (countable) Words spoken while sleeping.
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Examples of "somniloquy" in Sentences
- Eri reveals she met with the veterinarian to discuss Goro's somniloquy.
- I notice our article Somniloquy has no audio file giving an example yet.
- "How long are we going to wait out here?" complained Nawin in his somniloquy.
- Apparently, talking in one's sleep is a form of parasomnia termed somniloquy.
- Almost 61 percent of subjects in group three reported experiencing somniloquy at least "rarely" in the last year, and 40.9 percent reported somnambulism.
- In any case, it turned out there was no room for sleepwalking in the book, because I got so interested in narcolepsy and insomnia and sleeptalking, or somniloquy.
- She plots Six's graphs and statistics while playing Seven's sleep video in double time, watching the patterns and listening to him do his somniloquy in a high-pitched Chipmunk voice.
- The study distinguished the dream-enacting behavior of speaking out loud some of the words of a dream about talking from somniloquy (sleep talking), which was defined as speaking or making sounds during sleep without clear recall of an accompanying dream.