daysleeper

daysleeper

English

Etymology

day +‎ sleeper

Noun

daysleeper (plural daysleepers)

1. One who sleeps during the daytime.
   • 1975, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (ed. Lester Del Rey), Volume 4, Dutton (1975), page 96:

     "I rose early to speak with you: I know you are a daysleeper."

   • 1998, R.E.M., "Daysleeper", Up:

     I see today with a newsprint fray / My night is colored headache gray / Daysleeper

   • 2012, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 76:

     Individuals and societies may choose to extend days into nights, but this choice can invite sleep disorders, insofar as the sleep needs of daysleepers are understood as variances from social norms of sleep.