Citations:semisomnia

Noun: "(neologism) a chronic state of low-grade exhaustion caused by too little or fitful sleep"

 * 2007 — Moira Petty, "Are you one of the millions of Britons suffering from 'semi-somnia'?", Daily Mail, 24 October 2007:
 * Women are more likely to suffer from semisomnia, partly because hormonal changes cause their temperature to rise.
 * 2007 — "We're worn out in Wiltshire!", Wiltshire Times, 1 November 2007:
 * A renowned sleep expert Dr Neil Stanley has reviewed 30 years of academic sleep research and found that 75 per cent of people in the west suffer from low-grade exhaustion because they cannot wind down properly.
 * Dr Stanley has coined a new phrase, semisomnia, to describe the condition.
 * 2007 — Catherine Vonledebur, "Too tired to get night's sleep", Coventry Evening Telegraph, 7 December 2007:
 * Like many people, Heidi is suffering from the effects of modern society's non-stop nature, and she is also struggling to separate her work and home life - what I call the "Blackberry-Bushed" cause of semisomnia.
 * 2008 — Peta Bee, "Could pillow be making you tired?", Daily Mail, 4 March 2008:
 * It was Dr Stanley who last year identified semisomnia, a form of low-grade exhaustion linked to our inability to switch off (as reported in Good Health).
 * 2010 — Wendy Green, "Wake up...to insomnia: Before you visit your GP, check if you have explored every possibility of achieving a good night's sleep", Daily Mail, 18 September 2010:
 * Dr Neil Stanley, a sleep expert of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, says there is a further type, one he terms 'semisomnia'.