The word "somnolence" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to being in a state of drowsiness or sleepiness. For example, "The somnolence of the long journey made it difficult to stay awake."
America's would-be vigilantes have been tranquilised by a combination of the country's unique role in the world, regulatory incentives to buy AAA debt, lazy risk-free assumptions, and a dearth of attractive alternative investments.With such bond market somnolence, there's nothing to stop America from accumulating enough rope to hang itself.
Lord Ashdown, a former high representative of the international community in Bosnia, said that maximum activity was being applied "to prevent Libya becoming another Bosnia", but that "inaction born of fatigue, somnolence and simple bad judgement" was the response to Bosnia.Arguments over Bosnia are highly ideological.
It's a beguiling place, with the brooding somnolence and isolation common to islands accessible only by boat.
Once, on a coldish night, all five of us were snugly under our blankets in varying degrees of somnolence when we were disturbed by the loud chirping of a solitary cricket.
Godzilla, the lord of the land and sea, has no objective, no goal, no guiding principle; it has been jolted from its somnolence, its habitat has been despoiled, and now it despoils ours.
Slightly unsteady, her somnolence permeated by the light-blue dawn, she moved toward the washbasin, making the pitcher clink.
On an older song, "Average Joe," Lamar sounded almost exactly like early Jay-Z; on the new song "Money Trees," he and Jay Rock duplicate the wispy somnolence of OutKast's "Aquemini".
Rather than echoing Mansbach's rueful wretchedness, "The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep" offers parents hope: the idea that encoded in its text is a formula for somnolence.
He smiled, thinking of the day that stretched ahead — the long, over-bright day of village somnolence, supine in its stillness, under trails of woodsmoke and the chirping of birds.
