Another word for stupor
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Noun
A deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity
- A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
- Dullness; apathy
- Lethargy; apathy.
- The property of being torpid.
- The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.
- A lack of interest or enthusiasm; apathy:
- (Medicine) An abnormal state of drowsiness, as caused by disease or drugs.
- A condition of abnormal drowsiness or torpor
- The quality of being leaden.
- A state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness.
- A lack of interest or spirit; feeling of listlessness; indifference
- Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness:
- A lack of vigor or vitality; weakness
- The property of being languid.
- Dullness of mind; mental lethargy.
- The quality or condition of being dull or lethargic
- The quality of being uninteresting.
- The quality of being slow to understand things.
- The lack of visual brilliance.
See also:A stunned or bewildered condition
- A state of altered consciousness, somewhat resembling sleep, during which voluntary movement is lost, as in hypnosis
- In spiritualistic belief, a condition in which a medium passes under the control of some external force, as for the transmission of communications from the dead during a séance
- A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often an hypnotic effect.
- Great astonishment or consternation.
- The act or an instance of stupefying.
- Stunned amazement or utter bewilderment
- A puzzle.
- The state of being confused or baffled; perplexity.
- Something that perplexes:
- The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment; confusion
- Something that is perplexed, or complicated
- The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
- The fact or condition of being mystified.
- Something intended to mystify.
- Mental confusion
- A state of mental confusion.
- A confused or disordered condition; mess, jumble, etc.
- Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.
- A similar mass of smoke, dust, etc. obscuring the atmosphere
- Something that obscures or conceals; a haze:
- An embarrassing feeling that leaves a person confused.
- A dazed condition
- A stunned or bewildered condition:
- The condition of being confused or disoriented.
- The fact or condition of being bewildered
- A confusion; jumble
- The state or quality of being bewildered.
- The characteristic of being befuddled.
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Another word for stupor
Noun
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- A confusing or perplexing situation.
- The condition of being confused or disoriented.
- The fact or condition of being bewildered
- (Obsolete) Bewilderment; perplexity.
- An amazed condition; great wonder; astonishment
- A state of extreme surprise or wonder; astonishment.
- A temporary cessation of some vital functions, as in hibernation
- A temporary state of interrupted breathing and loss of consciousness resembling death, caused especially by asphyxia.
- In science fiction, a state resembling hibernation, induced artificially as to ensure survival over a long period of time
- A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.
- A fully conscious state in which a person does not feel painful stimuli
- Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
- (Chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
- Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
- The art or skill of hypnotism
- A trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced
- A trancelike condition usually induced by another person, in which the subject is in a state of altered consciousness and responds, with certain limitations, to the suggestions of the hypnotist
- A condition of being deep in thought; reverie
- A state of deep thought.
- A state of mental absorption:
- A branch of knowledge or department of learning:
- A noteworthy or interesting example:
- In spiritualistic belief, a condition in which a medium passes under the control of some external force, as for the transmission of communications from the dead during a séance
- A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often an hypnotic effect.
- A state of altered consciousness, somewhat resembling sleep, during which voluntary movement is lost, as in hypnosis
- Local or general insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness, induced by an anesthetic.
- (Medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
- A drug, administered for medical or surgical purposes, that induces partial or total loss of sensation and may be topical, local, regional, or general, depending on the method of administration and area of the body affected.
- A state of drowsiness; sleepiness.
- A condition of deep stupor or unconsciousness produced by a drug or other chemical substance.
- A condition of deep stupor which passes into unconsciousness and paralysis, usually caused by a narcotic or certain chemicals
- Loss of sounds or letters from the middle of a word, as in the pronunciation of Gloucester (glästər)
- (Medicine) A brief loss of consciousness caused by inadequate blood flow to the brain.
- (Grammar) The shortening of a word by omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from the middle of the word; for example, bos'n for boatswain.
- Lethargy; apathy.
- A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
- A state of being dormant or inactive; temporary loss of all or part of the power of sensation or motion; sluggishness; stupor
- Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation.
- Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion.
- The state of lacking consciousness, of being unconscious
- An act of collapsing to a state to temporary unconsciousness.
- (Botany) A usually terminal tuft or cluster, especially a tuft of hairs on a seed, as on a willow or milkweed seed.
- A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
- A state of deep, often prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of injury, disease, or poison, in which an individual is incapable of sensing or responding to external stimuli and internal needs.
- A state of ecstasy or rapture.
- An act or instance of swooning
- (Informal) A period of poor performance
- Loss of consciousness as a result of too little oxygen and too much carbon dioxide in the blood: suffocation causes asphyxia
- A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death. Asphyxia can be induced by choking, drowning, electric shock, injury, or the inhalation of toxic gases.
- Great astonishment or consternation.
- The state of being stupefied.
- The act or an instance of stupefying.
- Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.
- Lack of interest; listless condition; unconcern; indifference
- Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
- A condition of abnormal drowsiness or torpor
- (Medicine) An abnormal state of drowsiness, as caused by disease or drugs.
- A lack of interest or enthusiasm; apathy:
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