Unsleep
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unsleep is a noun meaning Sleeplessness; wakefulness.
Meaning
Sleeplessness; wakefulness.
More Meanings
- A sleeplike state that is not true sleep.
- To be wakeful.
- (intransitive) To awaken; to become wakeful.
- (transitive) To cause someone or something to go from a sleeping state to a wakeful one, or to deprive of sleep.
Example Sentences
Deeper than self entirely, made transparent, The dreamer enters unsleep, a new zone, And in so doing, climbs !
In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness. The empty unsleep of Echos.
Rather than sleeping the sleep of a very drunk man, I sleep the unsleep of a wizzed out partygoer after a couple of gees too many in the company of Uncle Charles.
In my own way I sleep, without slumber or repose, this vegetative life of imagining, and the distant reflection of the silent street lamps, like the quiet foam of a dirty sea, hovers behind my restless eyebrows. I sleep and unsleep.
Word Forms
- unsleeps
- unsleeping
- unslept
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wide-awake, awake, wakelessness, sleeplessness, insomnolence, insomnolency.
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