Hypnagogic (adj)
hip-na-godj-ik
Relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.
Late 19th century: from French hypnagogique, from Greek hupnos ‘sleep’ + agōgos ‘leading’ (from agein ‘to lead’).
Example sentences
“Sleep paralysis mostly occurs when people are in the hypnagogic state.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
