nonrapid eye movement

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   a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time

   Synonymsorthodox sleepnonrapid eye movement sleepNREM sleepNREM

   Broadersleep

Questions about nonrapid eye movement

What does nonrapid eye movement mean?

nonrapid eye movement means "a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time".

What is another word for nonrapid eye movement?

Close synonyms include orthodox sleep, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM sleep, NREM. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nonrapid eye movement a common word?

nonrapid eye movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.