sleep deprivation

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Noun

sleep deprivation (uncountable)

1. The condition of being kept awake and not getting enough sleep (as forcibly by someone else, or by a disorder), to the point of noticeably lower alertness.

   Synonym: sleep dep

   Sleep deprivation can lead to fatal vehicular accidents.

   • 2017 June 1, Guangsen Shi, David Wu, Louis J. Ptáček, Ying-Hui Fu, “Human genetics and sleep behavior”, in Current Opinion in Neurobiology‎^[1], volume 44, number 3, →DOI, pages 43–49:

     Growing evidence has accumulated over the last two decades and revealed that a number of sleep traits in humans are heritable, such as timing of sleep, total daily sleep requirement, response to sleep deprivation, and various EEG measurements/patterns.

Antonyms

• narcolepsy

Translations

condition of forcibly being kept awake

• Finnish: univaje
• French: manque de sommeil m, privation de sommeil f
• German: Schlafentzug (de) m
• Hungarian: (by force) alvásmegvonás, (by sleep disorder) alváshiány
• Polish: deprywacja snu f
• Russian: депривация сна (deprivacija sna)

See also

• sleep-deprived
• insomnia
• sleep debt
• sleep disorder
• undersleep
• lack of sleep