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hypersomnia

noun/ˌhaɪpəˈsɒmniə/

C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Excessive daytime sleepiness or prolonged night-time sleep that is not relieved by rest.

His atypical depression presented with hypersomnia, and he was sleeping upwards of twelve hours yet waking unrefreshed.

Topic: Mental health in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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