[syn: listlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Torpor \Tor"por\, n. [L., from torpere, to be torpid.]
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1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity
with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
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2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the
mental faculties.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
torpor
n 1: a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial
suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor"
[syn: torpor, torpidity]
2: inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or
energy [syn: listlessness, torpidity, torpidness,
torpor]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "torpor":
abeyance, abidingness, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia,
ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, catalepsy, catatonia,
changelessness, coma, comatoseness, constancy, deadliness,
deathliness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dormancy,
drowsiness, dullness, durability, durableness, duration, endurance,
enervation, ennui, entropy, fatigue, firmness, fixedness,
frozenness, hardening, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude,
hopelessness, idleness, immobility, immovability, immovableness,
immutability, inactivity, inanimation, inappetence, indifference,
indolence, inertia, inertness, insouciance, invariability,
invariableness, inveteracy, jadedness, just being,
lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment,
languor, languorousness, lassitude, lastingness, latency, laziness,
lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness,
listlessness, long standing, lotus-eating, mere existence,
mere tropism, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness,
passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence,
persistency, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness,
plucklessness, pococurantism, quiescence, resignation,
resignedness, rigidity, satedness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth,
slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, solidity, somnolence, sopor,
soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stability,
stagnancy, stagnation, standing, stasis, steadfastness, stolidity,
stupefaction, stupor, supineness, suspense, torpidity, torpidness,
torpitude, unchangeability, unchangingness, unconcern, vegetation,
vis inertiae, weariness, withdrawnness, world-weariness