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benumbment

noun

Etymology

From benumb + -ment.

Definitions

  1. The act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed

    The act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

    • The pain was electric and compact, reducing everything to its own sort of benumbment, making the world beyond my head seem small and dazed.

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