Torpor
['tɔːpə] or ['tɔrpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; 'he fell into a deep torpor'.
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Definition
(n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
(n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Numbness, torpidity, lethargy.[2]. Sluggishness, inertness, dulness, inactivity, stupidity.
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Examples
- I seized the favourable moment, and endeavoured to awaken in her something beyond the killing torpor of grief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When there she threw herself on the bed with her clothes on, and lay in apparent torpor, as she had done once before on a memorable day of grief. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I asked myself that question as I passed through the clean desolation, the neat ugliness, the prim torpor of the streets of Welmingham. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I had never noticed this kind of torpor in her before. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Even my aunt's torpor was roused by those words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But now we entered it with a torpor more painful than acute suffering. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I often thought I would lay my head close to the sweet, cold face of my lost angel, and thus resign myself to conquering torpor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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