What's the difference between insomnious and sleepless?
Insomnious
Definition:
(a.) Restless; sleepless.
Example Sentences:
(1) From a set of 24 items, factor analysis yielded seven distinct factors: the first was indicative of minor reactions consistent with intranasal administration; the second was reflective of sensory-perceptual distortions; the third of stimulatory-insomnious effects; the fourth of paranoic-aggressive reactions; the fifth of positive social effects; the sixth of physio-logical-cardiovascular reactions; and the seventh of physical-psychological problems of a chronic nature.
Sleepless
Definition:
(a.) Having no sleep; wakeful.
(a.) Having no rest; perpetually agitated.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(2) "When someone else in the house said they knew what I meant about sleepless nights, or about my lack of sex drive, they really did understand," says Andy.
(3) As a Hollywood player, she isn’t going to give Jennifer Lawrence or Scarlett Johansson sleepless nights, but as an actor-activist she has the kind of influence that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.
(4) The meeting ended in chaos after even longer periods of sleeplessness than Kyoto, with then climate change minister Penny Wong looking close to collapse at a 4am press conference.
(5) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(6) The most common approach was an in-house medical kit with instructions emphasizing self treatment of the common ailments of travellers such as motion sickness, sleeplessness, diarrhoea, indigestion and headaches.
(7) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
(8) Nadir during the second month showed virtual unresponsiveness, prolonged rhythmic motor and apneic seizures, total anorexia, and sleeplessness.
(9) The two groups of responders differed in terms of self-reported emotional arousal during the course of the sleepless night.
(10) A questionnaire study revealed that cash register operators more frequently complained of general fatigue, headache, sleeplessness, and low back pain than female office machine operators or other female workers.
(11) A message was flashing on each pillar: Sophie Calle , end of sleepless night, 7:00 a.m. As if to confirm that I hadn't dreamt it all.
(12) Against this background, experiments on circadian rhythms are outlined that yield a state of sustained sleepless activity.
(13) Photograph: Jack Affleck After a nervous, somewhat sleepless night, I headed to Skellefteå where preparations were under way for the start of the competition.
(14) Looking back now I would have started out with far less optimism had I known how many hours I would spend in airless rooms, how many animated discussions, how many sleepless nights mulling over the pros and cons of settling the case.
(15) The differences manifest themselves in the percentage of tiredness, sleeplessness, and depression, which occur much more frequently in the first group, while bodily weakness, ailments characterized by the occurrence of fits, perinatal encephalopathies with pyramidal disorders are more often observed in the second group.
(16) She also had a 2-year history of anxiety and depression, manifested in the hospital by frequent crying spells, sleeplessness, and ruminating about her illnesses.
(17) He is right to pursue the strategy of the sleepless campaigner, harrying the Conservatives in marginal seats such as Chingford and Woodford Green, where Iain Duncan Smith ’s majority has been reduced to 2,500.
(18) There’ll be two or three more sleepless nights before I submit my list,” he said.
(19) Surely even Hunt’s wife would rather spend a sleepless 72 hours gazing into a cracked open ribcage than talk to him.
(20) It is concluded that, when no evident cause for sleeplessness can be found in an infant, the possibility of milk allergy should be given serious consideration.