short sleeper
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.
Example Sentences
- "The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved."
- "As previously mentioned, short sleep has been linked to reduced life expectancy. This relationship probably has its source mainly in short total sleep time patterns resulting from medical and/or other sleep pathologies and not in short sleep itself, as represented by the short sleeper."
- "Both are fairly normal in the sense that the short sleeper is not a 'shortened' sleeper who used to sleep for longer and then decided to restrict him- or herself, nor does the longer sleeper have a sleep disorder."