rapid eye movement

Questions about rapid eye movement

What is another word for rapid eye movement?

It depends which rapid eye movement you mean. In the sense “a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep”, the synonyms are paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, REM. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of rapid eye movement?

WordNet records no antonym for rapid eye movement. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for rapid eye movement come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of rapid eye movement

• Full entry for rapid eye movementAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for rapid eye movementWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.