orthosomnia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep."
- "Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73]."
- "In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017)."
- "The sleep-tracking function tempts many people into thinking too much about sleep, which is the sort of thing that can make it hard to drift off. There's a term of art, “orthosomnia”. It means that you're losing sleep because you're worried that your sleep tracker is judging you."