sleepiness
- a word derived from sleepy.
Example Sentences
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FedEx uses something called the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale when setting flight schedules.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Sleepiness means you feel drowsy and have a hard time staying awake, Maller says.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2022
Sleepiness vanishes, like the picture when you turned off an old TV screen; it recedes to a dot.
From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2019
Sleepiness was a problem with the first generation of antihistamines, but the newest drugs do not cause such a problem.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Sleepiness and slothfulness keep it out of harm’s way, away from the notice of jaguars, ocelots, harpy eagles and anacondas.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
