MEANING
Walking or performing other actions while not fully awake from sleep.
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- an episode of somnambulism
- nocturnal somnambulism
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The doctor asked whether he had a history of somnambulism.
An episode of somnambulism had carried her as far as the staircase.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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