sleepiness

Questions about sleepiness

What does sleepiness mean?

sleepiness means "a very sleepy state".

How many syllables are in sleepiness?

sleepiness has 3 syllables: slee-pi-ness. The stress falls on "slee". In IPA it is /ˈslipinəs/.

What is another word for sleepiness?

Close synonyms include drowsiness, somnolence. 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.

What is the opposite of sleepiness?

The recorded antonyms are wakefulness.

Is sleepiness a common word?

sleepiness 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.