insomnolence

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ somnolence.

Noun

insomnolence (usually uncountable, plural insomnolences)

1. sleeplessness.
   • 1857, O'Bryen Bellingham, A Treatise on Diseases of the Heart:

     insomnolence is complained of, or if the patient sleeps his rest is disturbed by frightful dreams

   • 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 205:

     He […] feels out his body from the inside, rarefied and refined by hunger and insomnolence.

References

• “insomnolence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.