stupor
nounEtymology
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.
- derived from stupor
Definitions
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.
A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
To place into a stupor
To place into a stupor; to stupefy.
The neighborhood
- neighborstupefy
- neighborstupefaction
- neighborstupendous
- neighborstupid
- neighborstupor mundi
Derived
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.
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