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say it: NAHR-kuh-lep-see
narcolepsy is a noun meaning "a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep". It is pronounced /ˈnɑɹkəˌlɛpsi/ — NAHR-kuh-lep-see. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for narcolepsy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.