Definition of "somnia" []

• Plural of somnium. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In a drama close to somnia turbula, ganglias of cables and wires, nerve fibres and raunchy buzzing lights radiated down at him from a ceiling, meshed together in a flue."
• "I was going to frame the Kimpton's sleep take-out menu and hang it above my bed like a somnia-inducing talisman."
• "Somewhat unrelated, but on the issue of consent and culpability, I just watched the beginning of an episode of Law and Order SVU where a guy raped his girlfriend's little sister in his sleep due to some sex-somnia disorder, and they said they couldn't charge him with anything because he wasn't conscious of what he was doing."