stupor
stupor Lexical Profile
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• noun
A state of near-unconsciousness, insensibility, or extreme mental numbness, often caused by shock, exhaustion, or intoxication.
"After working two consecutive night shifts, he sat in a dazed stupor at the kitchen table."
In medicine and psychiatry, a clinical condition of severely impaired responsiveness in which a patient is immobile and mute, and can only be aroused by vigorous physical stimulation.
"The neurologist noted that the patient had progressed from mild lethargy into a clinical stupor requiring immediate intervention."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Late Middle English directly from Latin stupor ('numbness, dullness, astonishment'), derived from the verb stupere ('to be stunned or struck senseless'), which is also the root of 'stupid' and 'stupefy'.