insomniacn.
/ɪnˈsɒmnɪak/, U.S. /ᵻnˈsɑmniˌæk/ One who suffers from insomnia. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > one who stays awake > insomniac
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleeplessness > person
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1908 Lancet 8 Feb. 407/2 The urinary secretion is increased, not diminished. The latter phenomenon is, like all the phenomena of sleeplessness, most evident in the neurotic insomniac.
1930 H. Crichton-Miller Insomnia ii. 21 Most insomniacs wish it to be believed that the onus of their insomnia lies with their circumstances and environment.
1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads iv. 126 A Pennsylvanian with pouchy insomniac eyes.
1953 E. Hyams Gentian Violet ix. 176 Jim's absence of mind might cause thousands of back-street chemists to have seven instead of four forms to complete when purchasing barbiturates; and compel insomniac neurotics to pass sleepless nights.
1957 P. I. Rosenteur Morpheus & Me xvi. 270 Our system of individual enterprise has made it possible for anyone, whatever his original social or economic status, to work and worry himself right into the front ranks of the insomniac army.
1959 Listener 23 July 121/2 Baghdad has been an insomniac's paradise.
1973 L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters xiv. 214 A Mickey Finn, guaranteed to put the worst insomniac in the world fast asleep in five minutes.
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