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noun Psychiatry.
a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
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Also called sleep-terror disorder.
Origin of night terror
First recorded in 1895–1900
Words nearby night terror
nightspot, nightstand, night stick, night sweats, night table, night terror, night terrors, nighttide, nighttime, night vision, nightwalker
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How to use night terror in a sentence
When Murphy’s son read Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Beloved,” and was so moved by the brutality of the story that it gave him night terrors, he was awakened to one of the searing and true chapters of America’s past.
I would fall asleep to night terrors and wake up sweating, their words circling in my head and feeding my vultures of anxiety.
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