hypnophobic

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adjective

Exhibiting or relating to hypnophobia.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

adjectivehypnophobic (comparative more hypnophobic, superlative most hypnophobic)

comparative more hypnophobic · superlative most hypnophobic

  1. Exhibiting or relating to hypnophobia.

    'I can't help it if she's hypnophobic. She's afraid to go to sleep in case she misses something.'

    2012, Cathy Woodman, Family Matters
    1 more example

    […] dreamlike waking experiences, and other hypnogenic and hypnophobic hallucinations which occur during the process of falling asleep and waking up.

    1971, Uroš Jovan Jovanović, Normal sleep in man, page 98

Origin

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Chicago

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