States and conditions

Synonyms for sleepiness

The synonym for sleepiness recorded in this bank is drowsiness, in the sense "a very sleepy state". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for sleepiness

drowsinessnoun, in the sense "a very sleepy state"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sleepiness.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampStates and conditions

a very sleepy state

Sleepiness causes many driving accidents.

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The true synonym

drowsiness

Same sentence, swapped: Drowsiness causes many driving accidents.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

wakefulness
depletion
drunkenness

Where sleepiness turns up in the game

sleepiness is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play sleepiness

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sleepiness reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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