semiconsciousness
/ˌsɛmiˈkɑnʃəsnəs/
noun
- A state of being only partly awake or aware, between sleeping and being fully conscious.
- The patient lay in semiconsciousness, barely responding to the doctor's voice.
- He woke from a deep sleep into a foggy semiconsciousness, unsure where he was.
- After the accident, she drifted in and out of semiconsciousness for several hours.
- A state of reduced awareness or attention, not fully alert or focused.
- During the long lecture, I fell into a kind of semiconsciousness, hearing words but not processing them.
- She worked through the night in a haze of semiconsciousness, running on pure caffeine.
- The medication left him in a semiconsciousness that made it hard to hold a conversation.
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