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Sleepwalker vs Sleeptalker - What's the difference?

sleepwalker | sleeptalker |

As nouns the difference between sleepwalker and sleeptalker

is that sleepwalker is someone who walks about in their sleep while sleeptalker is a person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.

sleepwalker

English

Alternative forms

* sleep-walker

Noun

  • Someone who walks about in their sleep.
  • *, chapter=15
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

    Synonyms

    * somnambulist

    sleeptalker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
  • * 2008 , Christian Jarrett & Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology , Continuum (2008), ISBN 9780826479785, page 141:
    • Often they will wake when their sleeptalking startles another person, who then makes a noise at being woken up, waking the sleeptalker to ask the other "What's wrong?"
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    • Synonyms

    *somniloquist