Etymology
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From French narcolepsie. By surface analysis, narco- + -lepsy, from Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō, “put to sleep”) + λῆψις (lêpsis, “seizure”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈnɑː(ɹ)kəˌlɛpsi/
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narcolepsy (countable and uncountable, plural narcolepsies)
- (pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.
Excitement-induced narcolepsy caused him to sleep through the most important events of his life.
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Translations
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sleeping disorder
- Afrikaans: narkolepsie
- Arabic: تغفيق
- Armenian: նարկոպրեսիա (narkopresia)
- Bashkir: нарколепсия (narkolepsiya)
- Basque: narkolepsia
- Belarusian: наркалепсыя f (narkaljepsyja)
- Catalan: narcolèpsia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發作性睡病／发作性睡病 (fāzuòxìng shuìbìng), 發作性嗜睡病／发作性嗜睡病 (fāzuòxìng shìshuì bìng), 猝睡症 (cùshuìzhèng), 渴睡症 (kěshuìzhèng), 嗜眠病 (zh) (shìmiánbìng), 嗜眠症 (shìmiánzhèng)
- Czech: narkolepsie f
- Danish: narkolepsi c
- Dutch: slaapzucht f, narcolepsie (nl) f
- Estonian: narkolepsia (et)
- Finnish: narkolepsia (fi), nukahtelusairaus
- French: narcolepsie (fr) f
- Georgian: ნარკოლეფსია (narḳolepsia)
- German: Narkolepsie (de) f
- Greek: ναρκοληψία (el) (narkolipsía)
- Hebrew: נרקולפסיה (he)
- Icelandic: drómasýki f
- Irish: narcailéipse f
- Italian: narcolessia (it)
- Japanese: ナルコレプシー (narukorepushī), 居眠り病 (いねむりびょう, inemuri byō)
- Kazakh: нарколепсия (narkolepsiä)
- Korean: 기면증 (gimyeonjeung)
- Kyrgyz: нарколепсия (narkolepsiya)
- Lithuanian: narkolepsija f
- Marathi: नार्कोलेप्सी (nārkolepsī)
- Norwegian: narkolepsi c
- Polish: narkolepsja (pl) f
- Portuguese: narcolepsia f
- Romanian: narcolepsie (ro) f
- Russian: нарколе́псия (ru) f (narkolépsija)
- Scottish Gaelic: an galar tuiteamas-cadail n
- Serbo-Croatian: narkolepsija (sh) f, нарколепсија f
- Slovak: narkolepsia f
- Slovene: narkolepsija f
- Spanish: narcolepsia (es) f
- Swedish: narkolepsi c
- Turkish: narkolepsi
- Ukrainian: нарколе́псія f (narkolépsija)
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