semisomnambulistic

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English

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Etymology

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From semi- +‎ somnambulistic.

Adjective

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semisomnambulistic (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat or partly somnambulistic.
    • 1995, Steve Talbott, The Future Does Not Compute, page VIII:
      The power of the computer-based organization to sustain itself in a semisomnambulistic manner, free of conscious, present control — while yet maintaining a certain internal, logical coherence — []
    • 2022, Owen Johnson, The Woman Gives:
      This silent confrontation lasted a long moment; possibly in the darkness Dangerfield, if he were truly awake and not in a semisomnambulistic state, was staring at the girl with that startled animal intensity which had characterized his first entrance.