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Word Meanings - STUPOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

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  • DROWSINESS
    State of being drowsy. Milton.
  • TORPOR
    1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. 2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
  • SWOON
    To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away
  • TORPORIFIC
    Tending to produce torpor.
  • TRANCE
    A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still
  • STUPOR
    1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
  • OBLIVION
    1. The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. Second childishness and mere oblivion. Shak. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion.
  • SWOONING
    from Swoon, v. -- Swoon"ing*ly, adv.
  • LETHARGY
    1. Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked. 2. A state of inaction or indifference. Europe lay then under a deep lethargy. Atterbury.
  • ASWOON
    In a swoon. Chaucer.
  • ASWOONED
    In a swoon.
  • DEMONSTRANCE
    Demonstration; proof. Holland.
  • PENETRANCE; PENETRANCY
    The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.
  • OUTRANCE
    The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.
  • REMONSTRANCE
    See MONSTRANCE (more info) 1. The act of remonstrating; as: A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than
  • MONSTRANCE
    A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.
  • REENTRANCE
    The act entereing again; re Hooker.
  • DISENTRANCE
    To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.
  • ENTRANCEMENT
    The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.
  • ENTRANCE
    1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into

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