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sleep vs NREM

NREM vs sleep

sleep and NREM both are nouns.

sleep is a verb but NREM is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sleep Yes No Yes No
NREM Yes No No No
As nouns, NREM is a hyponym of sleep; that is, NREM is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sleep:
  • sleep: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
  • NREM: a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time
Other hyponyms of sleep include sleeping, nonrapid eye movement, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM sleep, orthodox sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement sleep, REM, REM sleep, shut-eye, shuteye.
sleep (noun) NREM (noun)
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
a torpid state resembling deep sleep
a period of time spent sleeping
sleep (verb) NREM (verb)
be asleep
be able to accommodate for sleeping
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