sleep talking

1. 1.

   uttering speech while asleep

   Synonymssomniloquysomniloquism

   Broadersleepingprocess

Questions about sleep talking

What does sleep talking mean?

sleep talking means "uttering speech while asleep".

What is another word for sleep talking?

Close synonyms include somniloquy, somniloquism. 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 sleep talking a common word?

sleep talking 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.