Hypnagogic

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  • adjective. Inducing sleep; soporific.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Leading to sleep; inducing sleep; hypnotic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
  • adjective. That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. sleep inducing
  • Word Usage
    "Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages."
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