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State of being drowsy.
drowsy + -ness
From Wiktionary
Drowsiness was beginning to take hold of her.
Intense drowsiness yields to sleep and coma which ends in death from failure of the respiration.
The dangerous principle is a narcotic, and the symptoms are usually great nausea, drowsiness, stupor and pains in the joints.
Passion flower is known to cause drowsiness or sleepiness.
It was a direct attack upon the constitution which, to use the words of Istvan Szechenyi, first " startled the nation out of its sickly drowsiness."
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