somni-, somno-, somn-, -somnia, -somniac +

The act or habit of speaking during sleep; talking while sleeping.

A habitual sleep-talker.

Talking under the influence of hypnotic suggestion.

Anyone who is affected by or under the influence of somnipathy.

1. Sleep from sympathy (a reference to the influence exerted by one individual upon another, or received by one from another, and the effects thus produced, as seen in hypnotism, and in yawning) or by the process of mesmerism.
2. A state of sleep induced by hypnosis or mesmerism.
3. Disturbance of sleep; any disorder of sleep.

One who desires to sleep.

A device for recording the movements made by sleepers.

The process or technique of recording movements during sleep; also, polycinematosomnography.

An unnatural inclination to sleep; sleepiness, drowsiness.

1. Tending to cause sleepiness or drowsiness; inclining to sleep.
2. Marked by sleepiness or slowness.
3. A reference to persons: Inclined to sleep; heavy with sleep; drowsy.
4. In a condition of incomplete sleep; semicomatose.

Inclination to sleep; sleepiness, drowsiness; sleep drunkenness.

In a somnolent manner, sleepily.

The state or condition of being sleepy; inclination to sleep; drowsy.

Another term for hypnotism.

In psychiatry, also known as “sleeping princess syndrome”; a sexual abnormality in which sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent upon awakening a sleeping stranger with caresses or by means of oral sex.