insomnolence

English

Etymology

in- +‎ somnolence

Noun

insomnolence (usually uncountable, plural insomnolences)

sleeplessness.
- 1857, O'Bryen Bellingham, A Treatise on Diseases of the Heart:
  insomnolence is complained of, or if the patient sleeps his rest is disturbed by frightful dreams
- 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 205:
  He […] feels out his body from the inside, rarefied and refined by hunger and insomnolence.

References

“insomnolence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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