Noun: swevening
| Singular | swevening |
| Plural | swevenings |
Sample Sentences
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He saw distorted, dancing shapes in a nightmarish swevening.
Nouns inflected like swevening
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English swevenyng, from sweven (“dream”) and thus equivalent to sweven + -ing. Germanic cognates include Danish søvn (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn (“sleep”), Norwegian søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”). See: Danish Nouns '
søvn', Icelandic Nouns '
svefn', Swedish Nouns '
sömn'.