Meanings
- uncountableThe condition of being kept awake and not getting enough sleep (as forcibly by someone else, or by a disorder), to the point of noticeably lower alertness.
Sleep deprivation can lead to fatal vehicular accidents.
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Growing evidence has accumulated over the last two decades and revealed that a number of sleep traits in humans are heritable, such as timing of sleep, total daily sleep requirement, response to sleep deprivation, and various EEG measurements/patterns.
2017 June 1, Guangsen Shi, David Wu, Louis J. Ptáček, Ying-Hui Fu, “Human genetics and sleep behavior”, in Current Opinion in Neurobiology, volume 44, number 3, →DOI, pages 43–49Synonyms: sleep dep
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition of being kept awake and not getting enough sleep (as forcibly by someone else, or by a disorder), to the point of noticeably lower alertness.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 睡眠不足, 失眠
- 睡眠不足 (shuìmián bùzú)condition of forcibly being kept awake
- 失眠 (shīmián)condition of forcibly being kept awake
Finnish univaje
- univajecondition of forcibly being kept awake
French manque de sommeil, privation de sommeil
- manque de sommeilcondition of forcibly being kept awake
- privation de sommeilcondition of forcibly being kept awake
German Schlafentzug
- Schlafentzugcondition of forcibly being kept awake
Hungarian alvásmegvonás, alváshiány
- alvásmegvonáscondition of forcibly being kept awake
- alváshiánycondition of forcibly being kept awake
Polish deprywacja snu
- deprywacja snucondition of forcibly being kept awake
Russian депривация сна
- депривация сна (deprivacija sna)condition of forcibly being kept awake
Cite this entry
sleep deprivation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleep%20deprivation
“sleep deprivation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleep%20deprivation. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sleep deprivation,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleep%20deprivation.
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