parasomnia.

A disturbance involving unusual behavior or experience during sleep or sleep–wake transitions.

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Words that belong together

• a parasomnia episode
• recurrent parasomnias

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The report classified the episodes as a parasomnia.

She described the parasomnias without claiming that the sleeper remembered them.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular parasomnia; plural parasomnias. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.