Wordle: lexicon

8.31.2010

som·no·lence

-noun
1. a state of drowsiness; sleepiness.
2. a condition of semi-consciousness approaching coma.
3. Broch's theory of Dämmerzustände: "States of somnolence are states in which people move as mere trend followers under the trance of the normal." Sloterdijk, p. 101.


References - Air/Condition, Peter Sloterdijk; www.dictionary.reference.com

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