stupor

noun
/ˈstjuː.pə/UK/ˈstu.pɚ/US

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.

  1. derived from stupor

Definitions

  1. A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility

    A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.

    • He fell into a drunken stupor.
    • She woke from a deep stupor after the medication.
    • The shock left him in a stupor of disbelief.
  2. A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.

  3. To place into a stupor

    To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stupor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01stupor02shock03arising04arises05aris06arse07stupid

A definitional loop anchored at stupor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at stupor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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