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Dormitive vs Dormative - What's the difference?

dormitive | dormative |

As adjectives the difference between dormitive and dormative

is that dormitive is causing sleep while dormative is inducing sleep.

As a noun dormitive

is a medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

dormitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing sleep.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1916 , author=John Dewey , title= , passage=But "imitation" throws no light upon why they so act; it repeats the fact as an explanation of itself. It is an explanation of the same order as the famous saying that opium puts men to sleep because of its dormitive power.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1673 , author=Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) , title=Le Malade Imaginere, Act III, Interlude iii , passage=Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva. (Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.) }}

    Derived terms

    * dormitive principle * dormitive virtue

    Related terms

    * dorm * dormant * dormition * dormitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

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    dormative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • inducing sleep