Orthosomnia

Quick meaning: Orthosomnia is a noun meaning (psychology) An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.

Meaning

(psychology) An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.

Example Sentences

Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep.

Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73].

In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017).

The sleep-tracking function tempts many people into thinking too much about sleep, which is the sort of thing that can make it hard to drift off. There's a term of art, “orthosomnia”. It means that you're losing sleep because you're worried that your sleep tracker is judging you.

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Related dictionary entries include hypersomnia, hyposomnia, somnopathy, somnipathy, clinomania, hypersomnolence.

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