narcolepsy

1. 1.

   a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep

   “he believes that narcolepsy is attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during waking”

   Broaderhypersomnia

Other forms of narcolepsy

plural

narcolepsies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about narcolepsy

What does narcolepsy mean?

narcolepsy means "a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep".

How many syllables are in narcolepsy?

narcolepsy has 4 syllables: nar-co-lep-sy. The stress falls on "nar". In IPA it is /ˈnɑɹkəˌlɛpsi/.

Is narcolepsy a common word?

narcolepsy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with narcolepsy?

1 word rhymes with narcolepsy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.