sleepy sickness

Questions about sleepy sickness

What is another word for sleepy sickness?

It depends which sleepy sickness you mean. In the sense “an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness”, the synonyms are sleeping sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica. 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 sleepy sickness?

WordNet records no antonym for sleepy sickness. 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 sleepy sickness 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 sleepy sickness

• Full entry for sleepy sicknessAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sleepy sicknessWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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