semisomnambulistic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From semi- + somnambulistic.
Adjective
[edit]semisomnambulistic (not comparable)
- 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.