Learn English – What to call someone who does not sleep much

word-request

I don't think it is sleepless because it is much used for sleepless nights not for people, but I found an incident in Coca where it was used to describe a man. Anyway, if you have a sleepless night it means, I think, that you want to sleep but you cannot because you have a medical condition whatever level it is, but not because you have a lot of work you want to finish.

If there isn't any, then I would like to know if there is a word that describe someone who does not sleep a lot at night because that's his nature or they love night life.

It is an old house, painted white and well kept, standing behind a low
stone wall tufted with moss, and it dates back to 1790. There are many
rooms for a sleepless man to walk through. I knew that if I were a
better person, I would have stayed up with him, the way I used to do
each year. But I was tired, and longed for sleep the way I used to
long for the press of our two bodies. And besides, I didn't want to go
through this yet again.
The wife : a novel by Wolitzer, Meg.

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Best Answer

I think you can use a night owl, or a night-person.

I think a sleepless man is fine. Another similar word is an insomniac (a person who suffers from insomnia), but I believe that you know it already.

Actually, what you describe sounds pretty much like me myself. :)

Sometimes, people called me a vampire, a batman, or a dark knight, which is not quite to my taste. In casual chatting, I personally prefer a night dweller or a man of the night more.

Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia's page Night owl:

A night owl or evening person is a person who tends to stay up until late at night. The opposite of a night owl is an early bird, a lark as opposed to owl, someone who tends to begin sleeping at a time that is considered early and also wakes early.

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