somnambulism

Questions about somnambulism

What does somnambulism mean?

somnambulism means "walking by a person who is asleep".

How many syllables are in somnambulism?

somnambulism has 4 syllables and divides as som-nam-bu-lism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for somnambulism?

Close synonyms include sleepwalking, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation. 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 somnambulism a common word?

somnambulism 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.