semisomnambulistic

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ somnambulistic

Adjective

semisomnambulistic (not comparable)

1. Somewhat or partly somnambulistic.
   • 1995, Steve Talbott, The Future Does Not Compute, page VIII:

     The power of the computer-based organization to sustain itself in a semisomnambulistic manner, free of conscious, present control — while yet maintaining a certain internal, logical coherence — […]

   • 2022, Owen Johnson, The Woman Gives:

     This silent confrontation lasted a long moment; possibly in the darkness Dangerfield, if he were truly awake and not in a semisomnambulistic state, was staring at the girl with that startled animal intensity which had characterized his first entrance.