What does sleeping mean?
Sleeping means present participle and gerund of sleep.
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/ˈsliːpɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of sleep.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
We found a sleeping child inside the church.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
Use sleeping when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sleeping means present participle and gerund of sleep.
Common synonyms include quiescence, dormant, dormancy, quiescency.
Possible antonyms include waking.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
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