Synonyms:
sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence
Meaning: a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving accidents"
Usage examples
"Did you speak to Roscoe?" she yawned, rising lopsidedly in her drowsiness.
He is now lying outstretched in midday drowsiness, enjoying the great peace that rests on the lake.
"Then Bacchus (for it was indeed he), as if shaking off his drowsiness, exclaimed, 'What are you doing with me?
The hypnotic state is a condition of mind that extends from a comparatively wakeful state, with slight drowsiness, to complete somnambulism, no two subjects, as a rule, ever presenting the same characteristics.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Siesta, License CC BY-SA 4.0