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Oscitancy   Listen
noun
Oscitancy  n.  
1.
The act of gaping or yawning.
2.
Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness. "It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers."





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"Oscitancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... miraculous treatise, having hitherto, beyond expectation, maintained by the aforesaid handle a firm hold upon my gentle readers, it is with great reluctance that I am at length compelled to remit my grasp, leaving them in the perusal of what remains to that natural oscitancy inherent in the tribe. I can only assure thee, courteous reader, for both our comforts, that my concern is altogether equal to thine, for my unhappiness in losing or mislaying among my papers the remaining ...
— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift


Words linked to "Oscitancy" :   sleepiness, oscitant, reflex, reflex response, instinctive reflex, drowsiness, oscitance, somnolence, pandiculation, unconditioned reflex


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