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Somnolent vs Dormitive - What's the difference?

somnolent | dormitive |

As adjectives the difference between somnolent and dormitive

is that somnolent is drowsy or sleepy while dormitive is causing sleep.

As a noun dormitive is

a medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

somnolent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Drowsy or sleepy.
  • (dated) Causing literal or figurative sleepiness; soporific.

    • 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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