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paralysis

noun
/pəˈɹæləsəs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). By surface analysis, para- + -lysis. Doublet of palsy.

  1. derived from παράλυσις
  2. borrowed from paralysis

Definitions

  1. The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more…

    The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.

  2. A state of being unable to act.

    • The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.
    • Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

The neighborhood

Derived

acroparalysis, analysis paralysis, angioparalysis, Australian paralysis tick, Brown-Séquard's paralysis, Chronic bee paralysis virus, fowl paralysis, general paralysis, general paralysis of the insane, hemiparalysis, immunoparalysis, infantile paralysis, iridoparalysis, keraunoparalysis, laryngoparalysis, neuroparalysis, paralysis agitans, paralysis by analysis, paralysis tick, pseudoparalysis, pyjama paralysis, semiparalysis, sleep paralysis, stethoparalysis, telegrapher's paralysis, tick paralysis, vasoparalysis

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paralysis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA