rapid eye movement sleep

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   a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep

   Synonymsparadoxical sleepREM sleeprapid eye movementREM

   Broadersleep

Questions about rapid eye movement sleep

What does rapid eye movement sleep mean?

rapid eye movement sleep means "a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep".

What is another word for rapid eye movement sleep?

Close synonyms include paradoxical sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM. 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 rapid eye movement sleep a common word?

rapid eye movement sleep 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.