What's the difference between noctambulist and sleepwalker?
Noctambulist
Definition:
(n.) A somnambulist.
Example Sentences:
Sleepwalker
Definition:
(n.) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron has defended his plans for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union , saying it is essential to stop the country “sleepwalking towards the exit”.
(2) Spurs were almost sleepwalking to a comfortable win, with even the crowd lulled into the inevitability of it all, when sloppiness flared.
(3) The probability that a sleepwalking child acquires a migraine is greater when she is a girl.
(4) Based on a number of clinical, physiologic, and etiopathogenetic similarities between sleepwalking and night terrors, these two conditions appear to fall along the same pathophysiologic and therefore nosologic continuum.
(5) Not in the sense of, say, 2001, when Tony Blair’s muted second triumph reflected a quiescent country sleepwalking through a long economic boom.
(6) Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, argued the country was "sleepwalking into a Welsh Mid Staffs tragedy".
(7) Like a sleepwalker roused from his dream, the world is slowly waking up to the full nightmare of the Ebola outbreak decimating west Africa.
(8) A mainstay in the management of sleepwalking and night terrors is instructing the patients and their family members to provide for adequate safety measures to prevent accidents that may occur during these events.
(9) There is a serious danger that without immediate action to address poverty in the UK, we could sleepwalk into a system similar to the US, where food banks are seen as a formal part of the welfare state.
(10) The pressure is growing on Roberto Martínez, and the sleepwalking nature of this defeat makes him look even more vulnerable.
(11) The case is described of a naked sleepwalker who was convicted of indecent exposure.
(12) The truth: Or rather, he's sleepwalking his way to greatness.
(13) He suggested that the public was sleepwalking into a surveillance society through a lack of knowledge about what was being done in their name.
(14) The findings showed that multiple personality can be differentiated from the other groups on variables such as history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, substance abuse, sleepwalking, childhood imaginary playmates, secondary features of multiple personality and extrasensory and supernatural experiences.
(15) In children, sleepwalking and night terrors (two manifestations of the same pathophysiologic substrate), nightmares, and enuresis are commonly related to developmental factors; counseling and reassurance of the parents is indicated.
(16) His theatrical farewell in 1983 had also been Ralph Richardson's, the great actor sleepwalking through his own nightmare and accusing a whole family of murdering a friend of his, in Simpson's neat but oddly flavourless translation of Eduardo de Filippo's Inner Voices at the National Theatre.
(17) Sleepwalking, too, shows the features of inaccessibility and subsequent amnesia for the episode.
(18) Crippled by fear and insecurity, we have sleepwalked into a situation where governments have arrogated to themselves the right to murder their enemies abroad.
(19) If we do not act, we risk sleepwalking into a society in which crime can no longer [be] investigated and terrorists can plot their murderous schemes undisrupted,” she said.
(20) The etiology of sleepwalking is controversial, the theory that sleepwalking is an epilepsy-like symptom is mostly discounted.