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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--diurnation This week's theme: words related to sleep. diurnation (dy-uhr-NAY-shuhn) noun The habit of sleeping or being dormant during the day. [From Latin diurnus (daily), from dies (day).] "Many others hide away in the daytime, an adaptation called diurnation." Neil Champion; Deserts; Black Rabbit Books; 2007. X-Bonus The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)

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