somnivolent

somnivolent

English

Etymology

See somno- and volition.

Adjective

somnivolent (comparative more somnivolent, superlative most somnivolent)

1. Having a desire to sleep.
   • 1962, Morton Wilfred Bloomfield, Piers Plowman as a fourteenth-century apocalypse (page 128)

     This portion of the poem, just after the Harrowing of Hell has been portrayed, opens with Will at home, awake from his last vision, dressing and going to Mass. In the midst of the service our somnivolent hero falls into his usual state and dreams his second-to-last vision.

   • 1986, Christine Park, Joining the grown-ups (page 124)

     […] she impatiently brushed them away, her eyes alight with the joy of living, her cheeks pink, her whole body taking on a sense of direction, a firmness of movement, as if it had been woken out of years of a somnivolent state.

   • 2012, Neil Raffan, Neuter Spectator (page 22)

     Thoughts of needing to rise for work in the morning further hindered Paul the somnivolent. The longer he lay awake the clearer his head became and the less likely he was to fall asleep, or so he thought.