somniloquy
pronunciation
How to pronounce somniloquy in British English: UK [sɒm'nɪləkwɪ]
How to pronounce somniloquy in American English: US [sɒm'nɪləkwɪ]
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- Noun:
- uttering speech while asleep
Word Origin
- somniloquy (n.)
- talking in one's sleep, 1847, from somni-, "sleep" + -loquy, from Latin loqui "to speak" (see locution). Related: Somniloquence (1814); somniloquent (1804, Coleridge); somniloquist; somniloquous; somniloquize.
Example
- 1. I heard your somniloquy last night .
- 2. Does somebody sleep in the evening every day what circumstance is somniloquy ?
- 3. Returned somniloquy of the continuously when the home sleeps that day , the mother asks what he is thinking after all , he says with respect to truth fact .