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Definition

an inability to sleep; or a disease that constantly creates an inability to sleep

insomnia = an inability to sleep

insomnia = an inability to sleep

insomnia = an inability to sleep

After all, he said to himself, it's probably only insomnia.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

insomnia = an inability to sleep

What had I done, other than become an insomniac?
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

insomniac = someone with an inability to sleep well

My hair was constantly going off in eleven wrong directions, and T. Ray, naturally, refused to buy me bristle rollers, so all year I'd had to roll it on Welch's grape juice cans, which had nearly turned me into an insomniac.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

insomniac = someone with an inability to sleep well

They had indeed contracted the illness of insomnia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

insomnia = inability to sleep

In the darkness of our room, I lay awake, an insomniac once more.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

insomniac = someone with an inability to sleep

insomniac = someone with an inability to sleep well

I grew up, a curious woman, a woman of story ghosts and story devils, a woman prone to bad dreams and bad insomnia.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
In the meantime, it would give Eric something to have insomnia over.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
But then, always and forever, I have been an insomniac.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
The insomnia's all right.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
He still had bouts of insomnia and dreams that involved immobility and appalling quantities of blood.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
It was not the naughty insomnia that resulted from a trip out to the shed to listen to the contraband station.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
Fortunately, she has not had to take any steroids of late and suffer the accompanying insomnia.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Long after midnight; but his insomnia had not been fruitless; he had a plan.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
The incident at dinner had provided the fodder for this night's insomnia.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Another night of insomnia.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
Apart from a spell of insomnia and severe pains in the stomach no trace of the poison was left.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf

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