sleeptalker

noun

sleeptalker

noun

Etymology From sleep + talker or sleeptalk + -er.

1

A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.

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?"2008, Christian Jarrett, Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology, Continuum, →ISBN, page 141:

Synonyms: somniloquist

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